The Geographic Information System (GIS) is an invaluable tool in manipulating and
interpreting world scale datasets. In recent years it has become the standard link between
water resource study and the ever-increasing numbers of high quality data sets. This
paper describes the use of Geographic Information Systems for gathering and...
A method for delineating watersheds by computer using digital
elevation model (OEM) data is presented. The five steps in this
process are detailed and examples are shown. The algorithm was tested
using a manually created OEM for a small area in Northern
California. Three basins were delineated using the delineation...
This study is an archeological testing report for the Willamette
Mission Hospital Site. Landform analysis, photointerpretation and historical
research were integrated with anthropological theory for this
study.
The site is an invaluable data base to further the study of human
adaptability and cultural change. It should provide an excellent context...
The specific geography of individual wine growing regions has long been understood to be a significant factor in predicting both a region’s success in producing high quality grapes, and the resulting demand for wines produced from that region's fruit. In the American wine industry, American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) are increasingly...
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...
Based in part on previous work by this researcher, variables assumed to play a minor part in the process/ response system examined by the OSU Alsea Bay Hazard Study Team (1985-87)--river input and subsequent variations in hydrology--were more completely analyzed for their range of effects on the stability of Alsea...
This research paper is an analysis of the electric energy industry
in Mexico since its inception in 1879. The research is based entirely
on library sources plus documents secured from the Federal Electricity
Commission of Mexico. Only minimal documentary evidence is
available in English, consequently the Oregon State University library...
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...
Old-growth in the Pacific Northwest is generally defined as trees that are more
than 200 years old. A great deal of analysis and discussion about old-growth forests in
western Oregon, however, has focused on the relatively widespread 400 to 500 year
age class of primarily Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees. The...
Increased demand for wood fiber has necessarily
increased the intensity of forest management in recent years.
In the Pacific Northwest the release of deciduous vegetation
following clearcutting of Douglas-fir is a major problem.
Herbicides which have been used in the past to control this
brush competition may no longer be...
