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...
The problem of this thesis is the existence of an anomalous manorial landscape in northern Fauquier County, Virginia. The county is about 45 miles southwest of Washington, D. C. The thesis seeks to develop a hypothesis to explain the existence of this landscape so different from surrounding areas in a...
The problem of this thesis is to evaluate small tracts of public
domain land as to their best use in an area where the Bureau of Land
Management desires to terminate managerial responsibilities. The
area chosen is located in the Prineville District, Bureau of Land
Management and is within the...
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...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the methods and criteria
developed for rating actual and potential agricultural land in the
United States. It is motivated by the apparent increasing competition
for quality space created by the expanding population, and by the belief
that land rating and classification are...
The retirement center is the new pattern of settlement in
Oregon. A few years ago there were no modern living accommodations
in the state especially designed for people in the retired category.
As to July 1966 development organizations have thirteen centers
in operation and over 4,000 people are in residence....
Temporal and spatial patterns of daytime cloudiness in the
Willamette Valley of Oregon were studied by utilizing monthly and
daily sky cover data published by the U. S. Weather Bureau for the
Portland, Salem, and Eugene stations. The 15-year period, 1949
through 1963, was selected as the maximum reliable period...
The Upper Napa Valley land use system is presently
agricultural and epitomized by vineyards of quality wine grapes. As
the San Francisco Bay Urban Area continues to expand the Upper
Napa Valley is brought into closer proximity to the urban margin,
and its agricultural usefulness is being threatened. Whether the...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the problem of the
increasing competition between recreation and irrigation at Wallowa
Lake. Originally Wallowa Lake was an abundant source of fish for
the Indians but the advent of irrigation in the area by the early settlers eliminated the blueback salmon (oncorhynchus...
The impacts of modern limited-access highways on the spatial distribution of non-agricultural development, and their influence in the shaping of occupancy patterns, are far-reaching and should be of eminent concern to all Americans. The location of the Interstate routes, with 80 percent of their 41,000 miles crossing rural localities, renders...