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  • The geography of the apple industry of the Chelan Valley, Washington

    Creator:
    Detering, Floyd John
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    The Chelan Valley is one of several valleys located on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains contributing to the leadership of Washington in apple production. Since the nature of the activity in the Chelan Valley is typical of all these producing areas,it was selected as a case study of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (._ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Floyd John Detering for

  • Hypermedia: potential for storing, managing and communicating natural resource information

    Creator:
    Barrington, Mack R.
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    Efficient management of natural resources requires the ability to utilize and integrate information. The challenge is to fully utilize this information base with its various degrees of accessibility, ever increasing volume and dispersed nature. The manager must be familiar with media types used to store, manage and communicate this information....
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    Capstone Project
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    Rangeland Hypermap Knowledge Base .......... 71 INTWXJCTION Efficient management of natural resources

  • One approach to the development of a simple Geographic Information System for management of natural resource areas

    Creator:
    Gaston, Greg G.
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    This project explored one set of tools and procedures that appeared to have the potential to make the handling of the spatial data necessary for resource management more efficient and effective. This project used data from the Nature Conservancy's Lawrence Memorial Grassland Preserve and was designed to explore a low...
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    Capstone Project
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    Information System For Management Of Natural Resource Areas Greg G. Gaston A Research Paper Submitted To

  • An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

    Creator:
    Couche, Stephen W.
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    Use of backcountry areas in winter by crosscountry skiers, snowshoers, climbers, snowmobilers and others has increased rapidly in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon in recent years. With this increase in use a larger segment of the user population is being exposed to potential a.,pl.H11 Winger. purpose of this study...
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    Masters Thesis
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    three areas, Mt. Hood, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen W. Concise for the degree or

  • The wild and scenic river act : problems of implementation in Oregon

    Creator:
    Root, Ann L.
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    In 1968, Congress passed the Wild and Scenic River Act creating a system of rivers protected from dams and other development. By 1987, segments of four Oregon rivers were protected by the Wild and Scenic River System: the Rogue, Illinois, Owyhee, and a portion of the Snake along the Idaho...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for many of those studies through the Ore- 6 gon Water Resources Research Institute. Pfister and

  • Improving forest resources in Nepal

    Creator:
    Ross, Marc Ellis
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    Deforestation and accompanying environmental deterioration is a threat to the economic growth and to the survival of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal . There is need for a comprehensive forest rehabilitation program tailored to the different conditions of the Terai plain, Middle Hills and the Highland Himalaya regions of the...
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    Capstone Project
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    the natural resources on which they depend for their livelihood. In a study of a microgeo- graphical

  • Criteria for evaluating the visual resource a classification system

    Creator:
    Leineweber, Stephen J.
    Abstract:
    Planning for the visual resource has always been difficult because of the complex nature of the subject matter. Recent federal legislation has generated a large amount of research on the problem of scenic measurement. Using an adaptation of a visual analysis system used by the Forest Service, a fourteen square...
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    Capstone Project
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    CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE VISUAL RESOURCE A CLASSIFICATION

  • A conceptual paradigm for the evaluation of recreation resources

    Creator:
    Stankey, George H.
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    One of the most serious problems confronting modern America is the efficient and rational utilization of the recreation resource base, not only in terms of present demands and needs, but future as well. The resource manager, in the past, has had few guidelines from which to determine the type and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    PARADIGM FOR THE EVALUATION OF RECREATION RESOURCES CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Recreation resource

  • Lower Salmon River Cultural Resource Management Plan

    Creator:
    Sisson, David A.
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    Cultural resource inventories have identified,205 individual sites on public land along the Lower Salmon River, Idaho. These sites represent a rich and diverse record of the human occupation and utilization of the river canyon during the past 10,000 years. Each of these 205 sites contains its own unique record of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    II - NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Geology 9 Soils 9 Geomorphology 10 Climate 11 Water Resource 12

  • Exploring pathways to adaptive collaborative management : a multi-case study of the National Riparian Service Team's place-based riparian assistance

    Creator:
    Smedstad, Jill A.
    Abstract:
    Adaptive collaborative (co-) management has received increased recognition as a novel approach to environmental governance that combines the dynamic learning features of adaptive management with the linking and network features of collaborative management. This approach is concerned with fostering sustainable livelihoods and ecological sustainability in the face of uncertainty and...
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    resulted in a cross-cutting set of principles for the collective management of natural resources in the