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Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:

Prior, Jan M.

Abstract:

The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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165 KINSHIP, ENVIRONMENT AND THE FOREST SERVICE: HOMESTEADING IN OREGON'S COAST RANGE CHAPTER 1
Using oral histories to document changing forest cover patterns : Soap Creek Valley, Oregon, 1500-1999

Creator:

Zybach, Bob

Abstract:

This thesis examines forest history of a portion of the Douglas-fir Region: Soap Creek Valley, a 15,000 acre sub-basin of the Luckiamute River in northern Benton County, Oregon. The primary reasons for the research were to test oral history methodology, document sub-basin scale forest cover pattern changes, and determine basic...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis