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"...
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...