The morphology and genesis of soils of the Willamette series
and of some Willamette-associated soils and their relationships to
geomorphic surfaces were studied in an area near McCoy, Polk
County, Oregon. Influences of regional extent, such as climate and
parent material, were related to the soils and landforms. The soils...
Personnel of the OFC and OGC sampled various station of Coos Bay, Oregon to define areas used by several species of fish in the bay. Students at the University of Oregon Institute of Marine Biology sampled main channels with an otter trawl and observed animals on the tide flat. Primary...
Spawning fall Chinook and coho salmon were counted. Statistics give historic counts. Less area was surveyed in 1975, and methods of data analysis were re-evaluated.
The fall chinook index of abundance was 128% of the long-term average, and presumably would have been even higher had survey conditions in the central and north coast not been so difficult.
The surveys of spawning fish in coastal rivers in 1971 indicate that stocks of chum salmon remain at a low, although apparently stabilized level. Fluctuations are probably the result of year-class survival and age at maturity, rather than continued decline of the species.
The fall chinook index of abundance was...
Spawning coho, chinook, and chum salmon are annually surveyed in coastal streams by Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel. Annual peak counts of spawning salmon provide data for computing an index of coastal escapement which is plotted each year to chart spawning salmon trends over a period of years. This...
This report summarizes information obtained from groundfish surveys conducted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife from 1971 through 1974. The program was a comprehensive marine resource survey of the continental shelf and upper continental slope off Oregon between the Columbia River and Cape Blanco. Major goals were: (1)...