A general survey of mink farming practices in Oregon was made from visits to fur farms and by the raising of these animals at the Oregon State College Experimental Fur Farm. A history of mink farming in Oregon is presented. Special attention is given to ranch organization, equipment and housing...
Townsend's mole, Scapanus townsendii (Bachman), was
studied by live trapping, dead trapping, and observation
from July 1961, to July 1963, in Tillamook County,
Oregon. This study was initiated at the request of Tillamook County farmers to determine biological facts that
would assist them in their efforts to control this small...
A five-year clipping experiment was conducted to determine maximum sustained utilization levels for three big game browse plant species in
central Arizona. The three species were mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus
breviflorus) and desert ceanothus (Ceanothus Greggii) in the chaparral
type, and cliff-rose (Cowania mexicana var. Stensburiana) in the pinyon-juniper type. Experimental treatments...
This field investigation was designed to further
the understanding of the significant influence which
parent population density, as well as dispersion, have
on the dynamics of enclosed populations of the montane
vole, Microtus montanus (Peale). The study was conducted
in Klamath County, Oregon from June, 1963 to February,
1964. The...
During 1963 and 1964 collections were made in tributaries of
the lower Columbia River and literature was reviewed to compile a
list of fishes from that area.
Based on available sources and collections in this study, a
total of 28 families and 77 species are known from the lower Columbia...