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

Creator:: Root, Ann L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bouchard 1970, 165). In the second session of the 90th Congress, the House Committee on Interior and

The influence of aging dams and geography on the distribution of dam removals in the United States

Creator:: Ashley, Sara
Abstract:: Over 470 dams have been removed in the United States, and a significant increase in dam removals has occurred since the early 1990s. The aging of dams is often cited as the primary factor influencing removals; as dams surpass their functional life span, safety hazards, economic costs, and environmental concerns...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Colorado River, and the second director of the United States Geological Surveysuggested to a late i9

Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

Creator:: MacQuarrie, Patrick R.
Abstract:: River basins provide essential services for both humans and ecosystems. Understanding the connections between ecosystems and society and their function has been at the heart of resilience studies and has become an increasing important endeavor in research and practice. In this dissertation, I define basin resilience as a river basin...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: also like to thank Dr. Keith Muckleston for his priceless advice on the Columbia River Treaty and

Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

Creator:: Bakker, Marloes H. N.
Abstract:: Floods are the most frequent and damaging of all types of natural disasters and annually affect the lives of millions all over the globe. However, researchers seem to have overlooked the fact that floods do not recognize national boundaries. Therefore, the phenomena of shared, or transboundary floods occurring in international...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: international river basins (IRBs) (Marsalek et al., 2006). But rivers ignore political boundaries and have

Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Creator:: Eidem, Nathan T.
Abstract:: This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes of resilience enhancement. The Animas-La Plata Project in the upper San Juan basin is presented as a case...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Intranational Cooperation and Conflict over Freshwater: Examples from the Western United States. Journal of

Water Governance Process Assessment : Evaluating the Link between Decision Making Processes and Outcomes in the Columbia River Basin

Creator:: Ogren, Kimberly
Abstract:: Academics and practitioners agree that in water governance, the quality of a decision making process should influence the quality of the outcome and the degree to which it is accepted by interested parties. However, finding a feasible way to evaluate and then improve the quality of a decision making process...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: applied the Water GPA framework to the recent reviews of the Columbia River Treaty by the United States

Resilience and adaptability of transboundary rivers : the principle of equitable distribution of benefits and the institutional capacity of the Nile Basin

Creator:: Iyob, Biniam
Abstract:: Biophysical, socioeconomic and geopolitical pressures from population growth and economic development are leading to an increase in tensions regarding the sharing of water within transboundary basins. Transboundary basins are surface rivers and groundwater resources that are shared among sovereign nations and autonomous regions. This dissertation focuses on surface water in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: countries (e.g., the Columbia River is shared between Canada and the United States of America), while

Models relating camping to river terrace characteristics along the Rogue Scenic Waterway

Creator:: Pfister, Robert E.
Abstract:: The degree to which camping is related to selected characteristics of river terraces along the Rogue Waterway, Oregon has been analyzed. Previous attempts to formulate models relating campsite choice to characteristics of the natural environment focused on camping parties engaged in auto-camping and the aggregate population behavior rather than on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Doerksen, 1975; Pfister, 1975a and 1975b; Rogue River Study Group, 1974). As one of the rivers originally

Areawide Water Quality Management: a case study

Creator:: Brown, Gregory Frank
Abstract:: With our present pressing need to clean up our Nation'a waterways there has developed a shift from water resource development to water quality management. This shift was manifested in 1972 when Congress created Areawide Water Quality Management in Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments. Section 208...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: task, due mainly to the reluctance on the part of the State and EPA. With the new areawide entitles

Oregon's port districts as an element of economic development

Creator:: Bell, Allen Livingston
Abstract:: Oregon's twenty-two smaller port districts have the means to undertake a variety of community development goals. The activities of these public bodies extend beyond facilitating maritime commerce and harbor improvement. A primary responsibility, exemplified by a brief look at the evolution and contemporary authority of ports in Oregon, is to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: The Port of Port Orford ............... 25 The Port of Hood River ................ 28 V. Analysis and

Management conflicts and changing water use priorities at Fern Ridge Lake, Oregon

Creator:: Yingling, Jean Warrington
Abstract:: In recent years, low lake levels at Fern Ridge, Oregon have become a major concern for recreationists in the southern Willamette Valley. A filled reservoir is necessary for the most popular water sport at Fern Ridge: sailing. The Army Corps of Engineers manages Fern Ridge as part of the Willamette...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: federal water resource programs such as: NEPA 1969, the Clean Water Act 1967, and the Rivers and Harbors

Bayocean Spit, Tillamook, Oregon; early economic development and erosion history

Creator:: Terich, Thomas
Abstract:: Bayocean sand spit lies along the northern Oregon coast approximately 70 miles south of the Columbia River. Work was begun on the construction of a large recreational resort on the spit in the early 1900's. At the outset, the resort appeared to have a promising future. However, a three-year delay...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Tinkel, Rivers and Harbors Section, and Mr. Davidson, Photogrammetry Section, who courteously provided

Selected factors affecting rangeland use on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation

Creator:: Kuhlken, Robert
Abstract:: The rangelands of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation represent a major resource within a definitive geographic area. The utilization of this resource is affected by a number of factors, some of which are examined here. The cultural evolution of the Warm Springs people has resulted in the horse maintaining a...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Santa De to the Snake River by way of the headwaters of the Colorado, the Grand, and Green Rivers

Archaeological Investigations at the Seal Rock Site, 35LNC14 : A Late Prehistoric Shell Midden Located on the Central Oregon Coast

Creator:: Clark, Linda Ann
Abstract:: Seal Rock (35LNC14) is a late prehistoric shell midden site located on the central Oregon coast. Information derived from the faunal remains, radiocarbon dates, and location and size of the midden deposits suggest the site represents a late littoral stage of cultural adaptation. Analyses of lithic artifacts, and bone and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and bone and antler tools provide information on the technological and functional aspects of this

Transboundary groundwater : geopolitical consequences, commons sense, and the law of the hidden sea

Creator:: Jarvis, William Todd
Abstract:: With 97% of the world’s freshwater resources stored underground, the connection between groundwater resources to the metrics of space, scale and time common to the geographic study of natural resources has not been extensively investigated by geographers. While nearly 240 transboundary aquifers are mapped across the world, a potential “tragedy”...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of the United States federal and state research funding has focused on short-term operational

Changes in floodplain occupance Portland, Oregon 1957-1986

Creator:: Chaney, Richard Earl
Abstract:: Portland, Oregon Is in the northern end of the Willamette River Basin and Valley. The Willamette River caries the runoff discharge from approximately 12,000 square miles of basin area, and flows northward where it bisects the Portland metropolitan area and enters the confluence with the Columbia River. However, high discharge...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: bounded on the west and southwest by southwest Harbor Drive. The Marquam Bridge (added prior to 1972

The Public Trust Doctrine and the submerged and submersible lands of Oregon

Creator:: McLeod, Rosemary Alice
Abstract:: Public Trust Doctrine. is a legal theory substantive enough for private citizens to utilize as a comprehensive legal approach to resource management problems. The doctrine is ultimately derived from the notion of governmental responsibility to hold lands in trust for beneficial use by the public. The governmental title to lands...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: state of Oregon shall have concurrent jurisdiction on the Columbia and all other rivers and waters

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ley on the north and is one of the largest rivers in the United States. 28 Some of the large

Recreation potentials of the islands and marshes adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway

Creator:: Burgess, Linda Louise
Abstract:: Few Americans are aware of the tremendous recreation potentials along the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway, mainly because they are unaware of the existence and extent of the toll-free Waterway. This study attempts to categorize and locate some of the attractions that can be explored along the two thousand miles...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Wayne Aspinall, Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, states that, "it seems

Recreation planning and development Benton County, Oregon

Creator:: Stedman, Gary Douglas
Abstract:: There is a wide variety of developed, undeveloped and proposed outdoor recreation areas and facilities in Benton County. Recreation areas and facilities are supplied by federal, state, county, city and private agencies. Each agency plans for recreation development independently. The Benton County Parks Department and the city of Corvallis use...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: % state and regional use. The Pink House Landing is located about 10 miles west of Alsea on Oregon

Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

Creator:: Russell, John A.
Abstract:: Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: stock animals and raising gardens. Mary's River has its source in two smaller rivers, the North Fork

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami : tourism impacts and recovery progress in Thailand’s marine national parks

Creator:: Meprasert, Somrudee
Abstract:: The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami raised concern among marine park managers and hazard mitigation professionals about the significant impact of major coastal hazards on marine park natural resources and ecosystems. The main reason for this concern is the strong linkage of marine parks and their rich assortment of ecosystem services...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: hazards on marine park natural resources and ecosystems. The main reason for this concern is the

Historical landscape reconstruction and perceptual geography of Mount Hood, Oregon

Creator:: Belgam, Daniel R.
Abstract:: This research seeks to understand the influences of perception on land use around the Mount Hood area of Oregon and evaluate how it has evolved over the past 4,000 years. The study addresses three specific questions: 1) How has the study area evolved over time into the modern landscape? 2)...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: was focused on the Columbia River and its development, with Mount Hood relatively ignored aside

A biogeographical analysis of some relationships between man, land, and wildlife in Belize (British Honduras)

Creator:: Frost, Marvin D.
Abstract:: This thesis research consists of an investigation of the human influences on wildlife in Belize. The study was accomplished by the collection and analysis of data with respect to land use, habitat characteristics, and wildlife status in Belize. Requirements and status of many species are tabulated in order to give...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the United States and Canada; much was accomplished in the Oregon State University Library

An analysis of water resource conflict and cooperation in Oregon between 1990 and 2004

Creator:: Fesler, Kristel J.
Abstract:: This research provides details of water resource conflict and cooperation in Oregon between 1990 and 2004 by using an event database methodology. Events were concentrated in four of 18 basins. No basin accounted for more that 25% of the total water rights events, the most evenly distributed issue type. Overall...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: used repeatedly to characterize the state of water management in the western United States. Lengthy

Irrigated agriculture, energy, and endangered species in the Upper Klamath Basin : Evaluating trade-offs and interconnections

Creator:: Boehlert, Brent B.
Abstract:: In 2001, an extreme drought tightened water supply in the Upper Klamath Basin (basin) while earlier increases in Endangered Species Act (ESA) water requirements for basin fish species that same year elevated demands. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), which manages irrigation water in parts of the basin located near the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Bureau of Reclamation and National Marine Fisheries Service. 2005. United States Court of Appeals for

Oregon man-forest relationships and the 1971 Forest Practices Act

Creator:: Sullivan, Michael J.
Abstract:: Since the inception of white settlement, Oregon man-forest relationships have progressively matured. The 1971 Forest Practices Act is the culmination to date of increasing societal concern for the protection of the forest environment and the conservation of its resources. The Act has resulted in an increased employment of forest practices...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Governors Conference on natural resources was held at the White House and the stir it created through the

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: photo of Camp 1 and Ladee Flat located on a plateau above the Clackamas River illustrating the

Spatial expressions of farm size changes in the Polk and Linn counties of Oregon

Creator:: Van Otten, George A.
Abstract:: The spatial organization of farm units in Polk and Linn counties in the mid-Willamette Valley has undergone significant change over the past 30 years. Whereas most study areas operations in the 1930's and 1940's consisted of small family owned farms with contiguous land bases, present mid-Willamette Valley units vary considerably...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: - tion's population lived on farms (United States Bureau of the Census, Sept. , 1976). Literature Review

Reallocating resources, rebuilding community : the Klamath Basin agreements and the emergence of adaptive governance

Creator:: Chaffin, Brian C.
Abstract:: The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and U.S. House of Representatives on 10 November 2011 by Senator Jeff Merkley (OR-D) and Congressman

Land trusts in the New West : conserving and responding to local geographies?

Creator:: Loynes, Kathryn
Abstract:: This research focuses on the relationship between the emerging role of land trusts and rapid growth and change in the West. Teton County, Idaho, Teton County, Wyoming, and Sublette County, Wyoming, and each of their associated land trusts, are used as case studies. Each county has experienced varying levels of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on July 9, 2008. Title: Land trusts in the New West: conserving and responding to local

County responses to Goal 5 of LCDC planning goals and guidelines

Creator:: Short, Sharyl Elaine
Abstract:: Recent national and state legislation reflect a growing awareness of the need for comprehensive cultural resource management programs. Various pieces of federal legislation and Oregon's Senate Bill 100 demonstrate a willingness of governments to provide for such programs. The administration of local land use issues at the state government level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the legal limit of state power. The emphasis in terms of land use re- gulation is on due process and

The protection of instream flows in Idaho

Creator:: Schellbach, Ruth
Abstract:: Instream flow protection in western prior appropriation states is a relatively new phenomenon. Integrating instream flow protection measures with the older water law has been accomplished with varying degrees of success. Idaho relies on appropriation of unappropriated water by the Idaho Water Resource Board for protection of instream flows. Idaho's...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: , contaminant dilution, navigation, power generation, and groundwater recharge. In the United States, a variety

A conceptual paradigm for the evaluation of recreation resources

Creator:: Stankey, George H.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: United States today. Also, the terminology of the research topic is delineated and defined. Chapter

Pillaging Bloodwood: An Exploratory Examination of Illegal Deforestation in Guinea-Bissau Through Forest Disturbance Algorithms and Unsupervised Clustering Techniques

Creator:: Walters, Alexander E.
Abstract:: Environmental crime around the world, such as trafficking in illegal timber, is directly related to political instability. Traffickers exploit weak, fragile, and chaotic political circumstances to illegally extract high-value commodities, challenging the extent to which conservation goals are achievable in resource rich developing countries. Rosewood is the largest traded endangered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: volume across the world (“The Rosewood Racket”, 2017). The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Increasing the usefulness of high-altitude color infrared photography for the inventory, monitoring, and management of western wildland resources

Creator:: Colwell, Robert R.
Abstract:: This report describes the latest in a series of studies sponsored by the Nationwide Forestry Applications Program. Each such study has attempted to enhance the interpretability of remotely-sensed imagery. In this case the image type of specific interest is high-altitude color infrared (CIR) photography. This is a resource management tool...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: photography for the inventory, monitoring, and management of forest resources in the western United States

The visualization of perspective systems and iconology in Dürer’s cartographic works : an in-depth analysis using multiple methodological approaches

Creator:: Wörz, Adèle Lorraine
Abstract:: This dissertation uses a new methodological approach for an in-depth analysis of three cartographic works. Studies within the discipline of the history of cartography have followed various methodologies throughout the past century. This dissertation argues that in order to come to a more complete understanding of how maps were produced...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: necessary to study their geographical and scholastic context on a variety of scales: their modes of

A framework for the determination of the suitability of undeveloped land in the intermountain west for use as cropland

Creator:: Rathburn, Arthur Cristen
Abstract:: The "Framework for Determining the Suitability of Undeveloped Land for Use as Cropland" is a decision-making format to assist private and governmental agency decision makers in categorizing undeveloped lands, which have been identified as having potential for conversion to cropland, as to their suitability for use as cropland. The Framework...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Resource Planning Board, "Land Classifica- tion in the United States," as found in a Survey and Evaluation

Evaluation of Deforestation in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

Creator:: Wade, Michael C.
Abstract:: Satellite imagery has been a useful tool in monitoring land cover changes, including changes within protected areas. In the 1980’s and 1990’s Honduras created over 100 protected areas, yet few resources have been dedicated to their management. This study used Landsat satellite imagery to evaluate deforestation in the Río Plátano...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Dr. Julia Jones and Dr. Hannah Gosnell, for their work on my graduate committee and support of my

Chilling as a factor in crop location with particular reference to deciduous orchards in California

Creator:: Aron, Robert Henry
Abstract:: Several empirical formulas that may be used to estimate available chilling are presented in this study. Many climatic parameters were considered in the derivation of these formulas. One equation employing only maximum and minimum temperatures had a coefficients of correlation (R) and R² values of .978 and .957, respectively. This...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , in Poland and in the United States, it seems that GA is definitely involved in the release from

Patterns of water resource decision-making: minimum stream flows in the Willamette Basin

Creator:: Griffith, Glenn Edwin
Abstract:: Oregon's minimum stream flow program is intended to protect certain instream flow values by maintaining sufficient stream flows to support aquatic life and to minimize pollution. The increasing demand for consumptive uses of water, as well as certain deficiencies in the laws, policies, and administration of the program, bring into...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: growing conflict in the State of Oregon, as well as in many other parts of the United States, 'concerns

Perceptions of service quality of rural rail branchlines: a case study of southeast Benton County

Creator:: Gillam, John M.
Abstract:: American railroads have faced a declining share of freight traffic relative to other modes. Although a variety of reasons have been identified for this decline, most experts agree that a contributing problem is that the rail system is overdeveloped with unprofitable branchlines. Many economic models have been utilized to analyze...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: when needed, the author could always rely on Patty, Stan, Alan, Randy, Tim, Ted, Sandy and my folks

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

Creator:: Detering, Floyd John
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: throughout the United States. To maintain this high quality requires intensive care of trees and fruit

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