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Creator:: Murray, Michael
Abstract:: Ruchi Glades is proposed for designation as a Research Natural Area. It is located on the upper slopes of Oregon Caves National Monument which is administered by the National Park Service. Ruchi Glads has an impressive diversity of plant communities for such a small area. The Oregon Natural Heritage Plan...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: PRNA during a field visit performed by the Oregon Natural Heritage Program during the summer of 2000

Creator:: Langpap, Christian
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three papers on the use of incentives for conservation of endangered species on private land. The first paper examines incentives based on providing landowners with assurances regarding future regulation in exchange for their participation in a conservation agreement. The second and third papers are empirical analyses...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: United States. Forest Service. Conservation Education
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: school science activities and exploration of natural resource areas. During the summer, ICYL supported a

Creator:: Skelton, Katharine
Abstract:: This study determines the optimal allocation of watershed conservation funds in the John Day River Basin, Oregon. Fund managers can use a variety of targeting schemes to allocate their limited resources. Depending on which targeting criteria is used, they may or may not be achieving the maximum environmental benefits per...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the John Day River Basin, Oregon 131 The Optimal Allocation of Watershed Conservation Funding: A

Creator:: Gibson, Jennifer S.
Abstract:: On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Act NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service ODFW Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife OWEB

Creator:: Thomas, Kelley A.
Abstract:: Before 2002, almost all of the approximately 40,000 acres of land in the Wood River Valley, Oregon were used for intensive, flood-irrigated summer cattle grazing, as it had been for over 100 years. Conservation activity in the valley was limited to a couple of wealthy landowners. But a year after...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: endangered Coho salmon downstream of the Project farmers (BOR 2006). The Natural Resources Conservation

Creator:: Conway, Kathryn
Abstract:: In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of

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