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Mental and biophysical terrains of biodiversity : conservation of oak woodland on family forest

Creator:

Fischer, Alexandra Paige

Abstract:

This research analyzes how family forest owners conceptualize biodiversity in one high-conservation value area of oak woodland in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. Oregon white oak (Quercus garyanna) woodland, one of the most biologically diverse ecotypes in the state of Oregon, is in decline. Much of the oak ecotype...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

Creator:

Abrams, Jesse

Abstract:

Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...

Resource Type:

Dissertation