It flows briefly north, then generally west through the Western Cascades and Cascadia.

Dougco Schools opened in 1948 as a school employees credit union, and Western Cascade was established in 1958 to serve county, city and state employees.

It is volcanic ash, which fell in enormous quantities from 30 to 24 million years ago, during the rise of the Western Cascades.

The Western Cascades is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon that contains many shield volcanoes, cinder cones and lava flows.

The Western Cascades began to form 40 million years ago with eruptions from a chain of volcanoes near the Eocene shoreline.

The Santiam Canyon area, the Western Cascades and the High Cascades are to the east.

Older and more deeply eroded, the Western Cascades are a range of volcanoes lying west of and merging with the High Cascades.

Bear Creek, a Rogue tributary that flows south to north, marks the boundary between the Western Cascades to the east and the Klamath Mountains to the west.

The watershed is split into two geographic regions: the High Cascades and the Western Cascades, both volcanic in origin.

The Western Cascades compose the western two thirds of the watershed.