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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...
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    interview and a tour of their property. I began each interview with a concept mapping exercise. Concept

  • Private forests, public policy : oak conservation on family forests in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Fischer, Alexandra Paige
    Abstract:
    In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts occur on private lands. This is especially true in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon where the hallmark habitat type, Oregon white oak woodland and savanna, is imperiled. Almost exclusively found on private land, Oregon white oak is threatened...
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    with empathy, facilitate cooperation between stakeholders, and avert potential conflicts that arise

  • Forest industry restructuring and emerging forest tenures in Deschutes and Klamath Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Kelly, Erin Clover
    Abstract:
    Since the 1980s, industrial forest restructuring has resulted in the divestment of industrial timberlands across the U.S. Emerging tenures have benefited from the divestment, including conservation-based tenures that manage for multiple objectives such as restoration, recreation access, and forest and habitat contiguity. Deschutes and Klamath Counties, Oregon, have three proposed...
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    for helping me with research about the Mazama. Thanks also to all the reference librarians who led

  • 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...
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    for this study include key informant interviews with 70 individuals, a mail-administered survey of

  • Banks, Gardens and Bees: Enhancing Community Resilience in West Africa

    Creator:
    Polasky, Sophia
    Abstract:
    International development programs are often implemented with the goal of building community resilience, but without a clear articulation of how this goal will be met, or any consideration of if or why the effort was successful after it has concluded. This thesis considers three different activities implemented by the U....
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    Masters Thesis
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    International development programs are often implemented with the goal of building community resilience, but

  • Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

    Creator:
    Williams, Robert Lawrence
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    Few studies analyze the relationship between ecological knowledge and public preferences for natural resource management options. The Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area (CCAMA) and McKenzie watershed of western Oregon provides an opportunity to examine the relationship. This research project employs a mixed model approach to explore public knowledge of forest...
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    between urban and rural residents. The survey collected data on the public's familiarity with a variety