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  • Conflict over public land management : Oregon's Elk River dispute

    Creator:
    Tressler, Karen D.
    Abstract:
    Conflict over the management of public lands has increased markedly in the recent past. Forest Service personnel are responsible for making decisions about land allocations that are controversial and engender debate. This is a case study examining a conflict over the management of the Elk River drainage on the Siskiyou...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

    Creator:
    Sorte, Bruce Michael
    Abstract:
    Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    independent people during difficult times. Pearl Robertson, a Montana homesteader, made the acceptance and

  • 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
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    Wallowa Resources and Wallowa Mountain Institute, especially Nils Christoffersen, Jim Henson, and Holly