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Filtering by: Subject New River (Or.) Decade 1990-1999 Degree Field Agricultural and Resource Economics

The willingness of Central Oregon irrigators to donate water rights to augment Deschutes River flow

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Barkley, David, 1972-

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This study used contingent valuation techniques to estimate the willingness of central Oregon Irrigators to donate a portion of their water rights to increase Deschutes River flow. This study was different from previous contingent valuation studies in that it used water rights as the payment vehicles instead of dollars -...

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Masters Thesis

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right". If an individual applied for a water right, and the water was available in the river or lake
Opportunity cost to agriculture of meeting environmental restrictions on Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Creator:

Cho, Seong-Hoon

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Masters Thesis

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ariy I 992 and 1 994) in the Kiamath River Basin and inceased demand for water forced the Bureau to
An economic analysis of alternative water allocations and habitat investments for anadromous fish production, John Day Basin, Oregon

Creator:

Cerda, Arcadio Alberto

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This thesis focuses on the economic efficiency of alternative habitat, streamfiow, and land use allocations within a major drainage of the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, productivity of present habitat and streamfiow conditions is evaluated with respect to anadromous fish species (chinook salmon and steelhead trout) in the John Day River Basin,...

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Dissertation

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Columbia River Basin over the past several decades. This conflict was heightened by the need for new