http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2870 2013-05-16T10:18:14Z 2013-05-16T10:18:14Z Lindberg, Kreg http://hdl.handle.net/1957/16621 2010-07-13T22:10:58Z 2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

The economic impacts of off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation in Oregon: main report Lindberg, Kreg Despite a recent decline, during the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in sales and permit registrations for off-highway vehicles (OHVs) in Oregon. These vehicles include quads and three-wheel ATVs (Class I), dune buggies, sand rails, and 4x4 vehicles (Class II), and off-highway motorcycles (Class III). This report updates the 1999 OHV economic impact analysis, based on expenditure reported by a sample of OHV riders for the year 2008. As with any economic activity, this expenditure creates multiplier effects in the economy. The economic significance of equipment expenditure reflects all activity, by region, from “oneoff” purchases such as OHV vehicles, trailers, and tow vehicles. The economic impact of trip expenditure reflects “new money,” by region, from fuel, lodging, food, and other spending related to the use of OHVs. All spending reflects recreational OHV use of public lands in Oregon. Equipment expenditure is from Oregon residents, while trip expenditure is in-Oregon spending by Oregon residents and out-of-state visitors. Within Oregon, an estimated 68,202 households engage in recreational OHV riding. These households spent an estimated $291 million on OHV equipment in 2008, with the Willamette Valley region representing 38% of all equipment expenditure. Statewide, the average household spent $4,259 on equipment, of which $1,596 was for OHV vehicles and $1,105 was the cost of vehicles attributable to towing OHVs. Statewide, this spending generated $53.5 million in labor income, including employee compensation and proprietary income. This income supported 1,162 jobs. An estimated 2.6 million household trip days were taken statewide in 2008, with the South Coast having the largest share (756,581 trip days). These trip days include all OHV riding, from an hour-long ride on adjacent land to a week-long vacation hundreds of miles away. Combined, local, non-local, and out-of-state trips were associated with $250 million in trip expenditure in Oregon. A substantial portion of this total was for gasoline, to be expected given the record high gas prices that year. Statewide, this spending generated $64.1 million in labor income, and this income supported 2,369 jobs. Both types of expenditure involve significant retail components, but this is especially true for equipment. Much of this spending is quickly “lost” from the host region to purchase the products sold (vehicles, gasoline, etc.). In addition, jobs are both full-time and part-time, and with varying wage levels. This accounts for the difference between equipment and trip results with respect to the ratios between expenditure, income, and employment. Prepared for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department by Kreg Lindberg (Oregon State University -- Cascades Campus). Permission to make available online given by Terry Bergerson, Outdoor Recreation Planner, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

2009-09-04T00:00:00Z Dollar, Natalie http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7499 2008-01-09T23:46:29Z 2008-01-09T23:29:39Z

Creating Non-polarized Scenes for Engaging Contested Topics Dollar, Natalie From the "It's in the Bag" presentation series. More information about the research in this presentation can be found at http://www.osucascades.edu/academics/speechcomm/commdialogue.php

2008-01-09T23:29:39Z Lopez Melton, Robyn http://hdl.handle.net/1957/6768 2007-10-30T07:02:24Z 2007-10-29T16:57:31Z

From here and there : crossing cultural borders and permeating the Piel de Palabras Lopez Melton, Robyn Immigrants must cross two barriers when entering the United States, the physical border and a cultural border created by a set of exclusive cultural values and profits-before-people economic ethics. Immigrants, coerced by unstable and desperate economic situations, risk their lives and leave behind their families to cross the physical border in search of something better for their children. After replanting themselves in a strange land they are faced with the second, cultural border. This border manifests in the lives of immigrants as oppression and exploitation. Language, in the form of pieles de palabras, delimits immigrants by alienating and criminalizing their identities. Our economic system and our own participation in the exploitation and oppression of this community hide immigrants from our consciousness, placing a metaphoric tinted window between immigrants and our consciousness. Despite alienation and blatant discrimination, immigrants build lives, families and communities. The push and pull between the immigrants’ culture of origin and the mainstream American culture leaves the immigrants in a unique placeless space coined by Gloria Anzaldúa “the borderlands.” This psychological space is a space of great oppression, but because normal cultural rules do not apply in the borderlands, it can be a place of great opportunity. The borderlands create a space where language and culture can be reinvented and a new inclusive consciousness can be carved, in which the tinted glass is shattered and the piel de palabras is permeated.

2007-10-29T16:57:31Z Hummell, Cassandra McKay, Erin http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2892 2006-10-23T07:28:52Z 2006-08-14T15:32:11Z

Maximizing soil moisture through mulch and slash applications Hummell, Cassandra; McKay, Erin Restoration projects that involve revegetation efforts are often confronted with problems of desiccation. Several studies have shown that mulching, or laying organic material over the surface of the soil, can be very effective in helping to retain soil moisture and avoid desiccation. To determine the effects of moisture retention in soil that is influenced by mulch, we equally distributed two treatments—bark and slash mulch, and a control, across 72 one meter square plots, and measured relative soil moisture 20 days after treatment. Soil moisture was found to be significantly higher in subplots with bark mulch application, and slightly higher in subplots with juniper/pine slash applications than in control plots. This study shows that mulch applications can help prevent soil desiccation which may improve seedling survival. Poster from 2006 Cascades student poster session.

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