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  • 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
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    PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BENTON COUNTY, OREGON INTRODUCTION Focus of the Paper The purpose of this

  • 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
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    TECHNIQUE (WET) TO JACKSON/FRAZIER WETLAND, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON by Jerry A. Griffith A RESEARCH PAPER

  • Transportation planning on the Willamette National Forest

    Creator:
    Nesmith, William Paul
    Abstract:
    The objective of this study is to answer four questions concerning the transportation network on the Willamette National Forest. These questions are 1) how many and what kind of roads exist on the forest, 2) how much annual traffic can these existing roads handle, 3) can the existing system handle...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    have been developing a long range land use and timber management plan. Development of a plan that will

  • 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
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    CASE STUDY OF SOUTHEAST BENTON COUNTY By JOHN M. GILLAM A RESEARCH PAPER Submitted To THE

  • 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
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    coast separating the Pacific Ocean from Tillamook Bay (Figure 1), has had a long history of beach

  • 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...
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    Capstone Project
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    CHANGES IN FLOODPLAIN OCCUPANCE PORI'L4AND, OREGON 1957 - 1986

  • 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
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    to the Nation. Major consideration must be given to prime lands and the long-range need to retain the

  • 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
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    County responses to Goal 5 of LCDC planning goals and

  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    majority of rural Benton County settlers chose to ranch or farm as livelihoods, but a few chose to log or

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of fire in the forests of the central Oregon Coast Range

    Creator:
    Impara, Peter C.
    Abstract:
    Fire history and fire regime were interpreted from tree ring analysis of 4320 stumps at 178 sites in a 25 by 55 km area in the central Oregon Coast Range. A total of 27 fire episodes were identified in a 516 year period, with sizes estimated at 18 to 544...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    500 years? 2) which environmental processes control or 4 influence fire in the Coast Range? and 3