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Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

Creator:

Hylton, Lindon B.

Abstract:

This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...

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Masters Thesis

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, I wish to thank committee members William G. Robbins, Barbara Roth, Richard E. Ross, and Mina
The Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial as Interpreted by Museums on the Oregon Trail

Creator:

Fackler, Amy E.

Abstract:

This study describes and analyzes Oregon Trail related exhibits of eleven museums and two interpretive centers that are geographically located along the Oregon Trail from Baker City, Oregon to Portland, Oregon. The exhibits were featured at the facilities during the 1993 Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial, a celebration that was initiated and...

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Masters Thesis

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and support in this project. I thank my committee members Roberta Hall, David Brauner, William
The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations

Creator:

Honey, William D.

Abstract:

The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, viewed in terms of a cultural-ecological system, has been subject to three phases of cultural development: hunting and gathering, agrarian, and industrial-urban. Each population base has employed a technology to exploit the environment to the extent that its patterns of culture would allow. This technology...

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Masters Thesis