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Filtering by: Creator Long Range Planning Conference (1924 : Hood River County, Or.) Advisor Gross, Joan Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.)

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Creator:

Stanton, Michael

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This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...

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Masters Thesis

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interviews with local smallholder farmers who were organically certified or used other sustainable methods
Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

Creator:

McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey

Abstract:

This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...

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Masters Thesis

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name to an entire stream or river was not uncommon; this usage may have been coined in the common