Oregon
Bird: Western Meadowlark
Tree: Douglass fir Fossil: Metasequoia Animal: American Beaver Beverage: Milk Crustacean: Dungeness crab Dance: Square dance Fish: Chinook Salmon Flower: Oregon Grape Fruit: pear Gem: Oregon sunstone Insect: Oregon Swallowtail Motto: “She Flies With Her Own Wings” Mushroom: Pacific golden chanterelle Nut: hazelnut Rock: Thunder-egg (geode) Seashell: Fusitriton oregonensis Soil: Jory soil Song: “Oregon, My Oregon”
I gave up learning these as a kid, before I knew what "arbitrary" or "bullshit" even meant.
The fact that there is a state animal, on top of bird, fish, insect, crustacean, and insect. Why form a separate category for "animal?" That and it's odd that there's a state beverage, and that it's milk.
Because an OSU grad had to try to get a beaver on the list? That is my guess anyway.Why form a separate category for "animal?"