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The temperatures are slowly getting cooler with each passing evening and that means it would be a good time to prepare for winter weather. We are currently being forecast with extreme cold weather in the upcoming months. Locations such as the Pacific Northwest have been predicted to have a colder then normal season while our southern states may be warmer and much dryer then they usually are. The various threats for different areas of the nation leaves no doubt that everyone regardless of where they reside will get a healthy dose of winter weather.

Skold (161) claims at the height “of the training program, a government agent, Augusta Clawson, enrolled in the Swan Island welding school to discover ways of improving training and reducing turnover, especially among women. At her suggestion, an orientation program for the newly hired was started, which included a special session for women workers conducted by the women’s counseling department. A few months later, the turnover rate for women production workers dropped to just slightly above that of men. The training program, coupled with the breakdown of crafts into component parts, made it easy for women and other inexperienced workers to enter shipbuilding…

As the freak winter storm of the pacific west coast takes over several parts of northern California, the rest of the pacific northwest is heeding the winter signs and rushing for a late winter preparation.

World War II had a major impact on technology and shaping of the Pacific Northwest. Schwantes (409) states “Even before the United States formally declared war on the Axis nations of Japan, Germany, and Italy in 1941, the Pacific Northwest experienced the impact of increased production for defense and aid to friendly nations already at war. The surprised Attack at Pearl Harbor rapidly accelerated that trend. Industries large and small produced ships, barges, aircraft, lumber and various kinds of wood products, metal, food, machinery, clothing, munitions and armaments.

The Russians, Germans, French-Canadians, Scottish, British, Indians and Owyhee all had significant influence of natural resources that became commodities and the commercialization of those resources. Each of these groups of people had an interest in fur-trappings as their main commodity, but according to Jackson & Kimerling (2003), “Most of these northern Europeans groups were farming folk in search of good land, though the Germans were a diverse lot who found a variety of niches to fill” (p. 22).

Over the course of our history in the Pacific Northwest, there have been various cultural expectations that have influence the encounters between various groups of northwest people. The Mexican born Spanish people, British and Native American people have encountered each others’ cultural differences for several centuries.

According to Weber (1998), the Spanish, mostly from Mexico were “the first non-Indian settlements in the region. Many of them resided on Vancouver Island and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Research suggests that relations between the Spain and Britain have improved over the years.

From the 570 million year old soil and rocks to the Native Americans and Europeans, everything you need to know about the region.

Why did people come west to Washington and how did they impact the region?