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Evaluating the impact of National Park Service landscape preservation policies on archaeological site formation : archaeology of the Nevada Camp (42WS4484)

Creator:: Bonnifield, Juanita T.
Abstract:: Between 1927 and 1930 the Nevada Contracting Company of Fallon, Nevada constructed the Zion Tunnel and a portion of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway in Zion National Park, Utah. During the construction approximately 200 workers lived at the contractor's camp, known today as the Nevada Camp. This camp, a temporary work...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Impact of National Park Service Landscape Preservation Policies on Archaeological Site Formation

Urban residents and non-point source pollution : an examination of practices, influences, and values in the Tualatin watershed

Creator:: Nielson, Lisa M.
Abstract:: In July of 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) provisions of the Clean Water Act. As the first river in Oregon to implement TMDL regulations, people and agencies in the Tualatin basin face many challenges. Non-point source pollution affects water quality in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: you took out of your day. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation Program

Slippery paths : connections and divergences between historic preservation and tourism in Micronesia

Creator:: Krause, Elizabeth L.
Abstract:: Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . National Park Service. Teddy John, president of the endowment, was generous with his time and information

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

Creator:: Stone, Helen Delight
Abstract:: Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Site ORBE2 : an archaeological analysis of a construction disturbed site

Creator:: Cromwell, Robert J.
Abstract:: This thesis describes investigations of archaeological materials recovered from Site ORBE2, an early-twentieth century historic site in Corvallis, OR. The archaeological materials were found only after construction workers had excavated trenches underneath the still-standing structure on the site in order to install a new foundation. Over 1500 artifacts were recovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: deciduous forest, with dominating stands of Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) (Speulda, 1988: 1). 7

Diversity at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site : processes of diversification in historical interpretation, visitor services, and workforce management

Creator:: Langford, Theresa E.
Abstract:: Issues of diversity are receiving significant attention within the National Park Service recently, due in large part to a growing awareness that its future as a relevant and viable agency is dependent upon improving its response to and management of diversity. A diversity assessment of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Vancouver National Historic Site: Processes of Diversification in Historical Interpretation, Visitor

Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Creator:: Vickers, Katherine Elise
Abstract:: In June 1999, I was a volunteer for a United States non-governmental organization, Crossroads Africa. I joined six other American women traveling to Ghana, West Africa to participate in a collaborative program designed by the Ghana Red Cross Society and Crossroads Africa. Specifically our group was assigned to work on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and the status of women in society are closely linked with national development, and during the

Perceptions of mental health and mental illness among the Wanniya-laeto of Sri Lanka

Creator:: Priest, Jill Amy
Abstract:: The Wanniya-laeto, often referred to as Veddas, are the indigenous people of Sri Lanka. They live primarily in governmental designated areas in the forest with a few Vedda villages on the eastern coastal region. In-depth, semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation were the methods used to access the perceptions...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in governmental designated areas in the forest with a few Vedda villages on the eastern coastal

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: knowledge of the connection between the forest and the coastal fishing ground through a river. The forest

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Creator:: Gregory, Ronald L.
Abstract:: Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: history testimony. Members of the Deschutes National Forest Service Staff to whom a note of appreciation

Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

Creator:: Oberst, Gail D.
Abstract:: The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Tillamook State Forest and the Siuslaw National Forest, slips between Trask Mountain to the north and Mt

"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

Creator:: Hiatt, Bryan
Abstract:: Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by world governments and multi-national corporations is the problem of the modern age for Snyder

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: scientific advisor to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and a lecturer at Boston's

An investigation into the ecology and distribution of Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder

Creator:: Marquis, Robert John
Abstract:: Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated. A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves, K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: National Forest of the United States Forest Service also aided in numerous ways and are thanked as well

A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Creator:: Yensen, Arthur Eric
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Alberta; Dr. W. F. Barr, Univer- sity of Idaho; Dr. E. C. Becker, Canadian National Collection; Dr. H. R

Twentieth century influences on public library service to certain adult groups

Creator:: Ashwell, Sara Elizabeth
Abstract:: The purpose of this study has been to develop insight into the aims and goals of public library service by considering one particular type of library activity--work with adult groups. To determine the influence of historical events on such service, consideration has been given to group work of the past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: other organizations already serving these groups has been noted. Information regarding national

Development of proceedings for an urban renewal project : the Esther Short project

Creator:: Merrill, John Russell
Abstract:: Urban centers, in part, are in the process of deterioration. Consequently, land values in these areas, both in dollars and in contribution to the community, remain dormant or depressed. There seems little doubt that there will be greater pressure for urban land. Urban renewal is one method of returning deteriorated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ,tngton. vancouver developed as a waterfront town on the banks of the columbia Rl,ver. tr'teld notes of

An illustrated key to the ferns of Oregon

Creator:: Pembrook, Helen Patricia O'Donahue
Abstract:: The purpose of the work is to enable students of botany to identify accurately Oregon ferns, both as living plants and as dried specimens. Therefore, it provides vegetative keys to the families, genera and species of the ferns (Class FILICINAE) found in Oregon. Correct names have been determined using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: formations; Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Pacific coast states. Type locality: Yellowstone National Park

An experimental taxonomic study of a northwest American polyploid species, Scrophularia lanceolata pursh

Creator:: Carlbom, Curt Gerald, 1932-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: County, Oregon. Near top of Mary's Peak, along road in forest of Abies procera. 7 and 8 Lincoln County

A history of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland and its place in the community

Creator:: Goodale, Dorothy Louise
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my mission . I also do my own cooking, and gather- rrry own wood out of the forest behind me; and

The development of the health program in the schools of Marion County, Oregon

Creator:: Fisher, Alice Bates
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ". The Dlan originated in the mind of Mr. Charles De Forest of the executive office of the National

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

Creator:: Castle, Leola Blanche
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: national hoUdays. Northwestern Press, Minneapolis, 1932. O.6O (S) t1The spirit of Columbus" -- a play

Certain ecological aspects of cultivated hill pastures in Kings Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Miller, Bonita June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of forest composition made in the southern section of the Olym pic National Forest, indicates that

Educational, economic and sociological problems encountered in training the light aviation sections of the Oregon National Guard

Creator:: Monroe, Melvin Candee
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Columbia. The National Guard contains units of all the different arms and services that go to form a

Animals of the subalpine forest of the McKenzie Pass area

Creator:: Yancey, Robert Maxwell
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ColumbIa River. The subspecies i found in the mbalpine forest of the Cascade, Sisklyou, and TrInit7

A proposed farmstead plan for an irrigated area in central Oregon

Creator:: Yang, Edith Leong
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Oregon in 194?. His solution for a section of the Columbia Basin Project was for cooperative

A contribution toward a bibliography of Oregon botany with notes on the botanical explorers of the state

Creator:: Osborn, Katherine H., 1906-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Vancouver expedition on the exploration of the Columbia River as far up as the site of Fort Vancouver

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