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Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Creator:: Shinn, Dean Allison
Abstract:: Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: EASTERN OREGON RANGELANDS Abstract approved: Dr. Edward E. Starkey Ecological and historical

The relationship of families' money management practices and their control of credit card use

Creator:: Wright, Julie Edwards
Abstract:: The use of credit cards by young families, their money management practices, and the relationship between money management practices and their control of credit card use was researched in this study. A sample of 60 Oregon families was drawn from the 1975 Johnson's Albany Area City Directory. These families were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Blanche, and others (29:2). Ross claims that the Diner's Club card program launched the credit card

Growth in the lichen Lobaria oregana as determined from sequential photographs

Creator:: Rhoades, Fred M. (Fred Mast)
Abstract:: The foliose lichen Lobaria oregana (Tuck.) Mti 11. Arg. is an important component of the upper canopy epiphyte community in oldgrowth Douglas fir forests of the Pacific Northwest. L. oregana contains the secondary phycobiont, Nostoc sp. , which is capable of fixing nitrogen. This thesis presents a new non-destructive method...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Meteorological data out of the depths of the IBP Data Bank (otherwise known as Ross Mercereau), The OSU

A comparison of a smoking and nonsmoking population using the forced expiratory flow in the seventy-five to eighty-five percent segment of the spirometric curve

Creator:: Breese, John David
Abstract:: Forced vital capacity lung expiration examinations of nonsmoking and cigarette-smoking male sample populations were compared to determine if the 75 to 85 percent segment was a more sensitive test of early lung dysfunction. The nonsmoking population was composed of 240 men who were tested for values of forced vital capacity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wasco and Warm Springs Indian clothing for six periods between 1805 and 1976

Creator:: Altseimer-Tilson, Wendy Victoria
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was twofold. One purpose was to investigate the clothing worn by the adult members of the Wasco and Warm Springs Indians. Six periods of time were examined: Period I - 1805-1811 Period II - 1870's-1880's Period III - 1900-1905 Period IV - 1950's-192-0's Period 7...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Appreciation is expressed to graduate committee members, Dr. Robert Johnson and Dr. William Robbins

The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

Creator:: Selam, Leroy Bennie
Abstract:: This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Part V: William Veeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 CHAPTER VII: POLITICAL PRESSURE

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Creator:: Blaisdell, Muriel Louise
Abstract:: Mimicry, obscure colors, and secondary sexual colors were important classes of observations that were analyzed by nineteenth century biologists from several vantage points. Adherents of the doctrine of special creation of fixed species believed animal colors to be evidence of design; Darwin and Wallace and their successors suggested that a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Barzun's Darwin, Marx, Wagner10. Gertrude Himmelfarb's, Jacques Barzun's and sometimes William Irvine's

Aspects of the social structure of the California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) in western Oregon

Creator:: Bickford, Carol E.
Abstract:: A population of Spermophilus beecheyi was studied to determine patterns of individual spacing, behavioral interactions among different sex and age classes, and the relationship between aspects of S. beecheyi social structure and sociality to those of other sciurids. Research was conducted on a population of squirrels living in an abandoned...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: S. beecheyi. Owings, Borchert, and Ross (1977) conducted the only study dealing exclusively with

Salvage Archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35304 : A Late Prehistoric Village Site on the Central Rogue River, Oregon

Creator:: Wilson, Bart McLean
Abstract:: Site 35J04 is located on the south bank of the Rogue River, four miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon. Excavation of the site was conducted in 1976 by Oregon State University under contract to the Corvallis branch of CH2M/Hill. Eight artifact assemblages were distinguished during the analysis of the site....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: coastal excavation was in the summer of 1976 at the Port Orford site (Richard Ross, Associate Professor

An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

Creator:: Couche, Stephen W.
Abstract:: Use of backcountry areas in winter by crosscountry skiers, snowshoers, climbers, snowmobilers and others has increased rapidly in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon in recent years. With this increase in use a larger segment of the user population is being exposed to potential a.,pl.H11 Winger. purpose of this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: knowledge of campground regulations (Ross and Moeller, 1974). In addition, brochures have the advantage of

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Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

The relationship of families' money management practices and their control of credit card use

Growth in the lichen Lobaria oregana as determined from sequential photographs

A comparison of a smoking and nonsmoking population using the forced expiratory flow in the seventy-five to eighty-five percent segment of the spirometric curve

Wasco and Warm Springs Indian clothing for six periods between 1805 and 1976

The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Aspects of the social structure of the California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) in western Oregon

Salvage Archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35304 : A Late Prehistoric Village Site on the Central Rogue River, Oregon

An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

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