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  • Public policy competition in water resource planning : a case study of Days Creek Dam

    Creator:
    Bartel, Marvin I.
    Abstract:
    The Corps of Engineers is in a position to dominate the formulation and implementation of public policy at a given local level. The position is based on the Corps' capability to influence the decision-making process through the exercise of force by means of eminent domain procedures, the assumption and demonstration...
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    Masters Thesis
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    RESOURCE PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF DAYS CREEK DAM Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Professor

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

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    the Benton County Historical Society & Museum. They reviewed all the records in the boxes from the

  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the Benton County Historical Society & Museum. They reviewed all the records in the boxes from the

  • Log cabin construction techniques in western Siskiyou County, 1850-1935 : their function and ethnic origins

    Creator:
    Abusaidi, Ali
    Abstract:
    Under the sponsorship of the Klamath National Forest, 25 log cabins which were built in western Siskiyou County between 1850 and 1937 were located and studied. First, 11 exterior dimensions of these cabins were selected, measured and recorded. Then 26 building elements were identified for the purpose of finding whether...
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    ) Homesteading Cabins 4) Range or Livestock Grazing Cabins Log cabins erected on locations where placer gold

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
    Abstract:
    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
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    3. Benton County, Oregon, Plat Map of the Town of Marysville 31 4. Benton County, Oregon, Plat

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
    Abstract:
    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    , Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian, Marion County, Oregon. The present condition of Champoeg closely

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

    Creator:
    Matz, Stephan E.
    Abstract:
    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    . Adaptation The tolerance range within the actual environment or ecosystem is referred to as the

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

    Creator:
    Hylton, Lindon B.
    Abstract:
    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    northern Benton County, Oregon. western edge of Oregon's upper Willamette Valley, on a spur of coastal