Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this research was to present a documentary analysis of school district reorganization in Oregon during the period from August 2O, 1957, to July 1, 1964, and to develop a plan for further school district reorganization for Oregon. The major elements of this study...
The impacts of modern limited-access highways on the spatial distribution of non-agricultural development, and their influence in the shaping of occupancy patterns, are far-reaching and should be of eminent concern to all Americans. The location of the Interstate routes, with 80 percent of their 41,000 miles crossing rural localities, renders...
Taking advantage of a favorable physical system but also risking the hazards of flooding, man has long occupied flood plain land. He has attempted to adjust rivers to his needs in order to reduce flood loss, but the rising cost of flood protection accompanied by an increase in flood damage...
Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Oregon State University undergraduate elementary education program. More specifically, the investigation sought answers to the following questions:
1. What are the graduates' judgments of pertinent areas of the
elementary teacher education program?
2. To what extent does...
In this paper we use the set of all positive integers as a sample space whose probability density function is unknown. Then a generalization of the probability distribution of the most significant digits of the set of all physical constants is obtained on the strength of (i) a very general...
A study was made to determine and examine the economics of
the mechanical harvest of tomatoes in the Salinas Valley of California.
To achieve this objective, it was necessary to detail the related cultural requirements of the machine harvested crop to the extent they budget technique, two economic models; one...
The principal salinity extrema and extremum surfaces of the
world ocean are described by the analysis and plotting of data from
885 hydrographic stations in the three major oceans, the Southern
Ocean, and the American Mediterranean Sea. The distributions of
salinity, temperature, depth, and density along the extremum surfaces,
plotted...
The Upper Napa Valley land use system is presently
agricultural and epitomized by vineyards of quality wine grapes. As
the San Francisco Bay Urban Area continues to expand the Upper
Napa Valley is brought into closer proximity to the urban margin,
and its agricultural usefulness is being threatened. Whether the...
Seven one-square-mile areas were selected to test the notion
that there is a general intensification of agriculture as farm land
becomes more valuable. The Tualatin Valley adjacent to a large expanding
population center was selected because the land values in this
valley are increasing faster than are those of average...
This research is an effort to appraise the results of the 1963
legislation, especially in terms of the spatial aspect. Has it achieved
the desired purpose? How many, and what size of farms are involved?
Where are these farms located?
The research field work resulted in a definitive map showing...
The Corvallis "urban area" has been selected for the
research problem at hand. Primary concern lies with forecasting
a 1985 arrangement of single-family residences. A model is developed
to simulate the 1968-1985 process of residential expansion outside
of the present city limits. Results of the simulation are summarized
both numerically...
Recreational resources of the Owyhee Breaks
Recreation Area are almost all of the extensive type such
as sightseeing, hunting, pleasure boating and rockhounding.
However, because of the increasing use both
past and projected, it is imperative that facilities be developed
to make these areas more useable and more enjoyable
to...
Re searchers have long tried to correlate weather factors with plant disease occurrences. However, inconclusive results have usually been obtained because most plant diseases have biologic as well as climatic optimums.
In this study, thirty weather variables were correlated, by the stepwise regression method in a computer, to the amount...
An index suitable for measurement of the
diversity of agricultural land use is developed. This
index is based on a principle of measuring the deviation
of a distribution from an even distribution and is similar
to indexes employed to measure diversity in manufacturing
The index is applied to the thirty-six...
Moisture has long been identified as one of the major
limiting factors in the distribution of agricultural land use practices.
However, the importance of any environmental element can only be
determined by considering how it is affected by its relationship with
other elements of the environment. Thornthwaite's moisture index
attempts...
At the time of the inception of this study in September 1968, the plywood market appeared to be taking a strong reversal of its general trend over the last 20 odd years. This prompted the author to decide to study the plywood market and its pricing structure to see if...
Township 40 South, Range 14 1/2 East, within the Klamath Basin in south central Oregon has been chosen for analysis in reconstructing vegetation. Both the present and the pre-settlement vegetative cover are depicted on maps, and the methods and sources utilized to reconstruct pre-settlement vegetation are reviewed. The term "pre-settlement"...