Willamette Falls

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you saw this.

There's like a very interesting kind of natural experiment where they had sea lion incursion into Willamette Falls.

There's like 11 of them, and they were able to use the existing MMPA authority to get them all out at once, remove them all at once, and it stopped the recruitment.

You know, so like I think this is actually a way of like reducing the overall take if you're able to sort of stop the recruitment, because that's what they do is like, you know, they come in from the ocean and they're like they feast and then they go back out and then their cousins are like, damn, you look good.

And it's a beautiful canyon that has the Tryon Creek itself running through it and connecting to the main stem of the Willamette River, which is one of the huge rivers that runs through Portland, through Oregon.

and is a bearer of many culturally important species and sites like Willamette Falls.

It's just a bit of a ways away.

And yeah, it's a really special place.

The very next day, April 13th, 1946, more body parts surfaced.

Two fishermen at Willamette Falls, a few miles up river, retrieved another burlap bundle that had been floating near a lock system.

Inside were the victim's arms and a thigh, also severed and weighted down in similar fashion to the first package.

The fishermen later revealed they had seen that burlap parcel bobbing in the water for weeks, but only upon hearing news of the torso did they realize its significance.

Did that place carry a different name at the time or was it, do you know?

Places like Willamette Falls, we know the name like Willamette Tum Tum or Tumwata.

It kind of hints at a beating heart because when the falls are falling, it sounds like a beating heart.

So people would call it the heart, the heart of the land.

On his return to Fort Vancouver, he made his abjuration and profession of faith at the hands of the Vicar General on November 18, 1842.

He made his confession and had his marriage blessed on the same day and prepared himself for his first communion by fasting during the four weeks of Advent, which he passed on his claim at the Willamette Falls, now called Oregon City, in having the place surveyed into blocks and lots.

Being thus prepared, he made his first communion at Fort Vancouver at midnight Mass on Christmas with a large number of the faithful women and servants of the Hudson Bay Company.

The little chapel was then full of white people and Indians.

From that date, the log chapel ceased to be his lodging place.

It was made more decent by sealing the sanctuary with mats and ornamenting the altar table with vases.

Various Missions in 1841 From his mission at Willamette Falls, the Vicar General went on May 6th to the Clackamas tribe, which he had already visited in March at the Wapato Lake.

The usual daily exercises were continued at the ringing of the bell for nine days.