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  • Effective Signage to Manage Recreation at OSU’s Research Forests

    Creator:
    Walters, Corinne A.
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    This thesis focuses on creating effective signage for the Oregon State University College of Forestry Research Forests (OSU Research Forests). The OSU Research Forests are a unique setting because they offer space for research, class field trips, active timber harvest, and public recreation. The public interface requires the management at...
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    , visitor rules, and etiquette when recreating in the school forest. One avenue the management conveys

  • A Tool for Estimating the Health Benefits from Outdoor Recreation in Oregon

    Creator:
    Dunn, Tara E.
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    The purpose of this project is to modify the Transportation Options Health Impact Estimator (TO Estimator) tool to quantify the health impacts of outdoor recreation in Oregon. The TO Estimator tool uses the Integrated Transportation and Health Impact Model (ITHIM) to quantitatively estimate the hypothetical health impacts of transportation mode...
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    Outdoor Recreation in Oregon by Tara Dunn A THESIS submitted to Oregon

  • Investigating Relationships between Outdoor Recreation Activities, EnvironmentalWorldviews, and Place of Residence

    Creator:
    Finn, Elliott Chad
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    Some evidence suggests a connection between outdoor recreation participation and stronger environmental worldviews. This study finds little evidence supporting participation in outdoor recreation activities and stronger environmental worldviews and some evidence supporting a weak connection between appreciative outdoor recreation and stronger environmental worldviews. Additionally, the study documents greater participation in...
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    in outdoor recreation activities and stronger environmental worldviews and some evidence supporting

  • The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on outdoor recreation

    Creator:
    Davis, Jensen
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    In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began. This prompted quarantines, mask mandates, and stopped many businesses and services. This study asked the question of what people decided to do in terms of their recreation habits in response to the pandemic. We took a sample of Oregon State University...
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    Recreation by Jensen Davis A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors College in partial

  • Estimating the economic net returns of Oregon & Washington forests with regard to climate change

    Creator:
    Johnson, Zoe I.
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    Little work has been conducted regarding the net returns of forest lands. The Ricardian model is ripe with potential to estimate the effects of climate on net returns to forestry. Multiple linear regression allows each climate variable to measure its effect of net returns with the assumption of all other...
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     variable of real net returns (USD 2010) per county of tree species.  Counties in Oregon and Washington were

  • A Historically Authentic Digital Recreation of Holocaust Survivor Henry Friedman’s Hiding Place and More Scenes from World War II

    Creator:
    Ward, Casey
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    This project uses a variety of 3D technologies to give a deeper understanding of what it was like to live through the events of World War II. It includes three unique scenes: a Parisian Alleyway, an Underground Air Raid Shelter, and the attic where Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman and his...
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    witnessing a terrible event. A Jewish family had been caught hiding in the forest, and they were brutally

  • The Effectiveness of Red Light Cameras In Washington and Oregon

    Creator:
    Bradbury, Kate Elise
    Abstract:
    This study considered collision data for Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon in order to determine whether or not red light cameras are effective in reducing red light running collisions. Red light running is extremely dangerous and is a leading cause of urban automobile collisions in the United States. Red light...
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    Red Light Cameras In Washington and Oregon By Kate Elise Bradbury A PROJECT

  • Ethnic Minority Students’ Barriers and Facilitators to Engaging in Campus Recreation

    Creator:
    Hoang, Tram V.
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    Purpose: Increasing enrollment numbers of multicultural students, and growing research between the relationship between student engagement and student success and retention heighten the importance of addressing student engagement in campus recreation. This study was conducted to explore the facilitators and barriers to underserved students participating in physical activity through campus...
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    Facilitators to Engaging in Campus Recreation by Tram V. Hoang A PROJECT submitted to Oregon

  • Effect of Fire Severity on Forest Development in a Mature Douglas-fir Forest in Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Hidzick, Maxim S.
    Abstract:
    Wildfires can create alternative pathways for forest development, and wildfires have expanded in size, frequency, intensity, and severity across the western United States. The purpose of this paper is to compare forest development of a mature Douglas-fir forest in western Oregon across fire severities. Postburn field measurements were collected in...
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    autumn wildfire event in the western Oregon Cascade Range, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 218(1

  • Perspectives on a Community Forest : A Practice in Nature Writing

    Creator:
    Hadella, Lucia C.
    Abstract:
    The McDonald Forest is one of the Oregon State University Research Forests, owned by the College of Forestry and located approximately seven miles northwest of the heart of Corvallis. I took four hikes on the McDonald Forest at four major recreation destinations: Oak Creek, Dimple Hill, Lewisburg Saddle, and Peavy...
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    at a main area of the forest. In these essays, I explored different environmental and natural