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  • Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

    Creator:
    Gibson, Jennifer S.
    Abstract:
    On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
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    Masters Thesis
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    3 6 6 Pre 1930's: Perceived natural resource abundance pre 1930's 7 1930-60: Conservation policy

  • Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

    Creator:
    Hearn, Kyle P.
    Abstract:
    Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
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    biologically rich natural environment and the numerous archaeological sites. A third resource, the human

  • Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

    Creator:
    Six, Amanda
    Abstract:
    Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
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    collected in the Upper McKenzie Valley of west- central Oregon, during the summer of 1993. These data