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Non-Regulatory Techniques for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Protection on Private Lands

Creator:: Malouf, Beth
Abstract:: A survey was developed for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to collect information about non-regulatory fish and wildlife habitat programs in nine states (Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont). Non-regulatory programs are voluntary and offer incentives to landowners who are interested in protecting or...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: urban wildlife areas; no planning programs for forest lands, 22 wetlands, or grasslands; and there

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:: Wildlife Management for Belize. 319 A BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN, LAND

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:: considered to be useless (for example, wetland and marshes) does indeed have value. The concept of land

A georeferenced digital image analysis of micro-topographic patterns within the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area, W. L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge

Creator:: Anderson, Karen L.
Abstract:: The present day vegetation pattern of the Willamette Valley is a result of a long past of human alteration of the landscape. Beginning with aboriginal burning of the grasslands to present day land uses, the vegetation of the valley has been affected by anthropogenic activity. Wet prairie is a vanishing...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Patterns within the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area, W.L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge by

Alternative uses for ryegrass lands

Creator:: Johnson, Lynn D.
Abstract:: Agricultural field burning in Oregon's Willamette Valley has been an accepted farming practice for sanitizing fields and removing stubble and residues left on fields after harvest since the early 1940s. Unfortunately, the smoke and debris created by the burning in combination with other pollutants have been causing health and environmental...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ALTERNATIVE USES FOR RYEGRASS LANDS by Lynn D. Johnson A

A gender sensitive analysis of a community-based wildlife utilization initiative in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley

Creator:: Nabane, Nontokozo
Abstract:: Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Program For Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), is a grassroots natural resource management initiative that promotes utilization of natural resources as an economic and sustainable land use option in Zimbabwe's rural areas. Currently the program focuses on wildlife utilization as a development intervention to improve the economic livelihood...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . . . . . . . 25 Figure 7. Composition of Committees . . . . . . . 27 Figure 8. Reasons for male only Wildlife

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:: , "Additional Lands for Crop Production: Western States," in Land Use: Food and Living, proceed- ings of the

Management implications of petroleum exploration and development in wilderness environments - minimizing wildlife impacts

Creator:: Bromley, Marianne S.
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is to provide resource managers with a compilation of background information useful in the development of guidelines and/or management strategies designed to minimize the disruptive impacts of petroleum exploration and development on wildlife in wilderness environments. The paper is a review of literature, and describes:...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: for Minimizing Adverse Impacts on Wildlife . . 94 Project Management .................. 94Wildlife

Factors affecting rural land value in the central coastal zone of Oregon

Creator:: Hartsook, Thomas Edward
Abstract:: The physical characteristics and spatial location of land are hypothesized to be significant inputs to its valuation. This research evaluates the influence of locational, economic, and physical site variables on the assessed value of real property. Evaluation of such influences is based on a stratified systematic sample of land parcels...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Among variables available for analysis of land parcels are percent slope, land use, area, soil type

Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

Creator:: Bell, James Walter
Abstract:: Human settlement patterns are the ways in which people locate themselves over the terrain in their area of occupation. Settlement pattern prediction attempts to define and understand the factors in culture, technology, and environment that shape the spatial distribution of habitation sites for a given group of people. A systematic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: terrain classifications for land-use planning. This type of qualitative terrain classification can also

A strategy for monitoring the Payette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan

Creator:: Thompson, Joyce Elma
Abstract:: Management of national forests evokes controversy about the allocation of limited resources among competing uses. A Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) has been prepared for the Payette National Forest. The Forest Plan describes resource management practices and the levels of resource production at which the Forest would be...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: A STRATEGY FOR MONITORING THE PAYETTE NATIONAL FOREST LAND AND

Factors affecting rural land value

Creator:: Rich, Stanley Arthur
Abstract:: The value per-acre and annual amortization of rural land varies dynamically by parcel size. There are several adjustment factors or independent variables spatial, productive and development potential which affect the market value of all rural land. The evaluation of these must be accomplished by parcel size to be realistically equated....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: wIldlife areas. Class VI lands have severe limitations. They are generally unsuited for cultivation and

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:: well as the use of working lands protection for conservation purposes

Mapping Wildlife-Relevant Snow Properties in Arctic-Boreal North America; Novel Modelling, Remote-Sensing, and Ground Observation Approaches

Creator:: Cosgrove, Christopher Liam
Abstract:: Arctic-boreal regions are exhibiting the symptoms of profound ecological shifts as they experience pronounced warming. Wildlife in high-latitudes are one such harbinger of change, and their populations are undergoing range-shifts, declines, and extinctions in response to their rapidly altering habitats. As the circumpolar and boreal north is snow-covered for up...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: understand snow-wildlife interactions and their consequences for population dynamics. This dissertation

A pilot study for estimating land use change

Creator:: Behm, Kevin
Abstract:: A two stage area-point sampling design was tested to estimate land use change in a fast growth county. Random square miles were selected, then subsampled at a density of 20 points per square mile. Twelve land use categories were derived from an aggregation of the USGS Land Use! Land Cover...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: A PILOT STUDY FOR ESTIMATING LAND USE CHANGE by Kevin Behm A

Land tenure changes in Madhya Pradesh, India; process and effects, 1950-1970

Creator:: Mukerrji, Deipica Bagchi
Abstract:: Importance of tenure structures is often ignored in agricultural development planning in India. Emphasis instead is commonly placed on agro-techniques for increasing productivity to meet the growing needs of food supply. To evaluate the affects of institutionalized tenure structure on agricultural efficiency, two pairs of contiguous districts from Madhya Pradesh,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , produc- tivity and modernizing trends of small, medium and large land- holders for each of the

Problems associated with changing land tenure in the Calapooia Drainage Basin

Creator:: Thomason, Dennis Richard
Abstract:: The land tenure system in the United States contains a variety of tenure types. A major characteristic of this tenure system is the continual change of tenure types within a given region. As these tenure types change, problems of a cultural, economic, and legal nature are created and interact with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGING LAND TENURE IN THE CALAPOOIA DRAINAGE BASIN Redacted for privacyAbstract approved

A monitoring system for identifying and recording land conversion in agricultural lands with SCS Soil Capability Classes I-IV

Creator:: Parker, Douglas Stuart
Abstract:: This paper discusses the structure, rationale, and application of a monitoring system specifically designed to identify and record conversion of lands with Soil Conservation Service Soil Capability Classes I-IV. Research methodology and design are structured to objectively assess the rates of agricultural land conversion to non-farm uses over a given...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: A MONITORING SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND RECORDING LAND

The effects of land use changes on forest fires in major islands of Indonesia

Creator:: Lumban-Tobing, Pago L.
Abstract:: The study examines the effect of forest clearance on fire occurrences in major islands of Indonesia, namely: Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya. The working hypothesis of the study is that forest clearing is a necessary predecessor for extensive fires to occur. The study is designed to test the idea...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Preliminary environmental impact analysis of desert land entry lands in Christmas Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Kinney, Andrew J.
Abstract:: The Bureau of Land Management's Lakeview District is currently under pressure to allow 16,000 acres located throughout the Christmas Lake Administrative Unit to be appropriated through the Desert Land Entries Act of 1877. These appropriations are being filed for by persons wishing to consolidate small public and private land tracts...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: public lands that the BLM is considering for appropriation by desert land entries is entirely located

User fees: issues and policy on Washington state public lands

Creator:: Caudill, David S.
Abstract:: Outdoor recreational activities on public lands have increased dramatically in the past few decades. Americans are logging millions of recreational visitor days (RVD's) participating in activities such as hiking, biking, wildlife viewing, photography and many others. This increased participation though is having detrimental effects on these lands and the agencies...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: and the agencies that provide and manage them. Budgets to provide for and manage these lands have

Origins of the old-growth forest conflict (1971-1989) : a new model for resource allocation

Creator:: Wilson, Mark Shelton
Abstract:: The old-growth forest conflict is part of the evolving debate over how to use the federal public lands. This study documents the origins and development of the old-growth issue through 1989. The controversy began in the early 1970s when scientists initiated studies of old-growth forests and northern spotted owls, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An ecological assessment of riparian land-use regulation, Lane County, Oregon

Creator:: Verret, Gregory Joseph
Abstract:: Riparian areas contribute to numerous ecological-maintenance functions and so are often the focus of protection efforts by land and resource management agencies. The riparian land-use regulations of one jurisdiction, Lane County, Oregon, are assessed for effectiveness in protecting ecological functions. Evaluation of the current condition of five elements of riparian...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ........................... 22 Table 5. Suggested Standards for Riparian Land Use, by Riparian Type

Selected factors affecting the pattern of agricultural land conversion in Washington County, Oregon, 1963-1973

Creator:: Furuseth, Owen J., 1949-
Abstract:: In recent years the conversion of agricultural lands to more intensive non-rural land uses has become a focus of increasing public awareness and concern. The growing attention to farmland conversion is manifested in increasing public policies and legilsation to protect agricultural and forestry land uses. Nevertheless, our understanding of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: wise use of prime lands are local, Statewide, and national in scope. The loss of land suitable for

An inventory and analysis of Pacific Northwest agricultural land use projections

Creator:: McKinley, Randolph Allen
Abstract:: This paper is a summary of a larger project that consolidated agricultural land use projection information for the Pacific Northwest, as of January 1979. The characteristics of nine major projection studies are identified and used as a basis for comparing the relative merits of each study with regard to: 1)...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: project that consolidated agricultural land use projection information for the Pacific Northwest, as of

An evaluation of agricultural lands for acquistion and consolidation : the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Creator:: Roberts, Rebecca S.
Abstract:: The Farm Enterprise Committee of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation requested that an evaluation be made of the Reservation land resource for the purpose of acquisition by the Tribe as a part of a study of the feasibility of an expanded farm enterprise. The Committee's primary goal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Tribal lands is one of the few means the Committee has for acquiring more land. The Committee wishes to

Ecological survey and interpretation of the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area, W.L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon

Creator:: Streatfeild, Rosemary Welch
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to: (1) evaluate land use and vegetation history of the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area; (2) characterize present day vegetation; (3) evaluate the relation of vegetation to environment, and (4) establish a baseline dataset for future trend analysis in order that response of different...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mapping from airphotos to determine disturbance in streamside land use

Creator:: Ely, Jane F.
Abstract:: High resolution land use/land cover information from stream riparian areas is useful in understanding instream biotic assemblages, and is often not available for geographical research. A classification system was developed which provides the types of information about the riparian buffer thought to be important in providing good habitat for, or...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: lands; interpretation cues are low-lying land within the floodplain which is not being used for

The relation of land use and size of land parcel to water services needed in the Merlin Irrigation District: 1973

Creator:: Walker, Michael L.
Abstract:: When considering acreage and the number of cadasters certain land use functions in the Merlin Irrigation District dominate. The majority of the cadasters in the district are ten acres or less. Approximately twice an many land owners in the district were willing to purchase water than those who were not....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Importance of Project Purposes for the Merlin Division Project 7 3 Total Acres in Different Land Uses 16 4

Comprehensive land planning: regional analysis of a repeal effort

Creator:: Greaves, Jerilyn Ann
Abstract:: A subjective model based on county demographic characteristics and regional variation in election issues was used to predict county by county election outcome on an effort to repeal mandatory comprehensive land planning in Oregon. The subjective model consisted of four county factors: 1) population density; 2) percent of urbanization; 3)...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: useful for setting the tone and thrust of future land planning programs in Oregon and the rest of the

Selected rural interstate interchanges and adjacent land values

Creator:: Radcliffe, Steven A.
Abstract:: Land value appreciation and its relation to three interchanges on Interstate 5 were studied. Lots within a two mile (3.2 km.) radius and in existence in 1965 and 1975 were included. The interchanges were selected on the basis of form, setting, type of crossroad, and distance from urban areas. Lots...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: County Assessors Office, particularly Mr. Gale Lebow for his know- ledge and experience in land

Selected variables influencing vacant urban land in Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Meade, James Montgomery
Abstract:: The thesis presented here is a quantitative study of vacant urban land in Corvallis, Oregon. In order to present this study the writer first studied the available literature and found that little had been published dealing with causal factors of vacant urban land. Rather, it was found that several writers...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from the inefficient use of our land resource. For instance, if the land remains in a prolonged state

Post-Aggregate Aggregation : A Geographic Evaluation of Enhancement Reclamation at Aggregate Mines in the Western United States

Creator:: Morrison, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: The aggregate industry is responsible for the extraction and production of crushed stone, sand, and gravel— the literal building blocks of our society. Across the U.S. there are tens of thousands of quarries and sand and gravel pits, the majority of which are left abandoned or with minimal reclamation efforts....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: permitting difficulties for the aggregate industry, growing environmental concerns, and land use

A land use planning application of the Wetland Evaluation Technique (WET) to Jackson/Frazier Wetland, Benton County, Oregon

Creator:: Griffith, Jerry A.
Abstract:: Along with the increased attention in the past two decades on the values of wetlands and the documentation of great losses of wetland acreage has been a growing need for a comprehensive assessment method for analyzing the functions of a wetland. Detailed site-specific study has been the traditional method for...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: just serving as habitat for fish and F I g ure 2. Wildlife Habitat Assessment * ** Unit No

Detecting changes in a wetland : using multi-spectral and temporal Landsat in the Upper Noun Valley Drainage Basin-Cameroon

Creator:: Ndzeidze, Stephen Koghan
Abstract:: Since the early 1980s, satellite imagery has been commonly used to detect change in wetlands. The overall objective of this study is to utilize remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to determine the extent of change of the wetland area and of other land use and land cover...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cameroon where it supports a wide range of wildlife. The study defines twelve different land cover and

An analysis of urban-suburban vs. rural voting on two land use issues in Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Martin, Robert Craig
Abstract:: When land use issues are voted upon directly by the people, or by the legislators who represent them, the outcome often reveals a discrepancy based on population density. Urban-suburban areas tend to support regulation, while rural areas tend to oppose it. The residents of Clackamas County have voted on two...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: and hard working individual. My sympathy goes to my parents for all the evenings of torment I caused

Comparison and accuracy assessment of wetland land cover classification systems in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Lett, Christina L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to better understand the level of wetland classification consistency among three different land cover layers created using Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensor technology. Where inconsistencies in data existed, the goal was to identify the kinds of inconsistencies that occur. The results were...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: that occur. The results were focused on wetland land cover classes used for habitat identification and

Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in the North Santiam Subbasin, On the Western Slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range

Creator:: Kelly, Cara McCulley
Abstract:: This thesis examines prehistoric land use patterns of the entire North Santiam subbasin, located on the western slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range. The objective of this analysis is three-fold: 1) to contribute to reconstructing the cultural chronology of the area; 2) to address the use of raw material by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: grateful for their unwavering support during this project. I would also like to thank Eric Berg land, who

Change detection of land cover in a meadow landscape : the“Ranches” meadow, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

Creator:: Anderson, Carl G.
Abstract:: From a landscape ecology perspective, meadows are often seen as landscapes in transition. Succession and change in meadows may be investigated by considering the physical and anthropogenic factors that influence the landscape through time. What is often unknown is how changes occur and how physical and anthropogenic factors contribute to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Vegetation Treatments – Ranches Meadow………….… 37 Figure 5.1 – Area of Grouped Land Cover Types for 1947

A comparison of two resource evaluation models used for classifying primary and secondary resource lands in Jackson County Oregon

Creator:: Vial, John Nicholas
Abstract:: Since 1983, the Oregon legislature and the Land Conservation and Development Commission have been attempting to develop a process whereby secondary resource lands can be identified and designated. The most recent attempt at developing a secondary lands model was completed in 1990 and was tested in six Oregon Counties. Planners...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: 1990 model Appendix B Soil ratings for 1988 model Appendix C 1990 primary/secondary lands model

An evaluation of the potential for land use management as an air pollution control measure within the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Vinton, Larry Richard
Abstract:: The rapid population growth and related economic growth of the Willamette Valley has resulted in a significant reduction in air quality over the past several decades. Within the Willamette Valley air ventilation is very poor and therefore the airpo1lutton potential is one of the highest in the United States. There...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: AN EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR LAND USE MANAGEMENT AS AN

Ocean shore protection policy and practices in Oregon : an evaluation of implementation success

Creator:: Good, James W.
Abstract:: Oregon's beaches were designated public recreation areas by the 1967 Beach Law. These beaches and adjacent shorelands experience erosion and other hazards due to winter storm waves, weathering, and geologic instability. Sea cliff recession threatens older development and inadequate construction setbacks create hazards for new buildings. The typical hazard response...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Conversion or retention of agricultural land? A Marion County, Oregon example

Creator:: Tillson, Gregory D.
Abstract:: Marion County had a 1976 cash receipt from all farm products amounting to $110,429,000. Much of this farm value was produced on the county's 410,350 acres of class I through IV soils. These soils, regardless of productivity, also have potential for a variety of other non-farm uses. It is this...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: country), conversion of marginal land into the crop production cycle, and the loss of land used for

Determining relative benefits to communities from urban and agricultural land use change in Napa County, California

Creator:: Bernard, Mark A.
Abstract:: Urban sprawl and the establishment of greenbelts to separate growing cities and towns has become a popular topic of conversation among land use professionals. Economists focus on urban growth in terms of land rents and have sought market solutions such as transfers and purchases of development rights to slow this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: economically in the monopoly land rents charged for vineyard land in the county, reported to be $140K per

Preserving open space and agricultural land through a program of transfer of development rights

Creator:: Carlson, John James
Abstract:: Existing land use controls have not effectively achieved the goals of resource protection and preservation. Prime agricultural and potential open space lands are rapidly being diminished by ever increasing pressures of development. The transfer of development rights presents an opportunity to safeguard these vital lands. The Boulder Valley would benefit...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Space Lands Upon determining the purpose for aquisition of a specific parcel of land, the OSET

Forestry herbicide use on private forest lands in Lincoln and Benton County Oregon, 1991-1994

Creator:: Godino, John Alessandro
Abstract:: The use of phenoxy herbicides is an established practice in industrial forestry, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Forestry herbicide use in this region has often been controversial. To better understand the spatial patterns of herbicide use and the potential for human health and environmental impacts, a landscape level perspective is...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: mile checkerboard ownership pattern of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and private lands, a relic

Analysis of growth rates of residential land values on and near the regulated flood plain

Creator:: Warnick, Larry James
Abstract:: Flood plain regulations are one of six major adjustments used to cope with flood hazard in the United States. This adjustment was essentially neglected in the national flood hazard policies until Congress enacted the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. The implementation of regulations, as called for in the Act,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: - tected areas.7 Struyk (1971) investigated flood control benefits for agricultural lands and land values

Flood plain land usage and regulations: Salem, Eugene-Springfield urban areas

Creator:: Humphreys, John A.
Abstract:: The Salem and Eugene-Springfield Urban Areas are faced with the task of managing the flood plain lands which lie near them. In the past, flood plain usage was not regulated and many dollars worth of damage has occurred to land and structures. This type of thinking is now changing, and...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: accounts for 5 acres (2 hectares) of land. Commercial Land Salem Commercial lands are very scarce in the

Analysis of riparian vegetation age structure and forest land ownership in the Central Oregon Cascades

Creator:: Purnell, Christopher S.
Abstract:: Vegetation along the banks of mountain streams in the western Oregon Cascades comprises an integral part of the transition zone between land and water based ecosystems, and as such, is a vitally important and unique natural resource. Forestry is a major land use in this region, and harvesting riparian vegetation...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: certain land owners were more likely than others to have managed forest lands in accordance with (or

Methodological considerations for implementing the U.S. Soil Conservation Service Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) System in Oregon, with special reference to Marion County, Oregon

Creator:: Fastner, Christopher John
Abstract:: Oregon land use specialists believe that the present definitions of farm and forest land in the state planning goals are too broad. This results in poor quality resource lands being as strongly protected as those of top quality. With persistent growth pressure on rural lands, a means to distinguish among...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ASSESSMENT SYSTEM ......... p.8 Land Evaluation Site Assessment IV. EVALUATING MARGINAL LANDS: A CASE

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