Olmsted Brothers was a landscape architect firm in Brookline, Mass. who helped plan Oregon Agricultural College and its landscape. Correspondence was to William Jasper Kerr, President of Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis, Oregon.
Published July 1988. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The Oregon Department of Forestry, in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, offers this publication as a guide for cities and counties to use in the development of urban forest practice regulations.
This site provides a variety of tools and resources for citizens and local governments interested in developing, revising, or evaluating local tree ordinances. Rather than using a "model ordinance" approach, we describe how tree ordinance development can be integrated with an overall community tree management program. The site includes annotated...
A multidisciplinary team of scientists (Appendix 1) examined 10 of the 16 environmental benchmarks that are tracked by the Oregon Progress Board. The intent of the environmental benchmarks is to provide a fair assessment of the status and trends of Oregon's environmental health. The scientists were asked to clarify benchmark...
A number of different systems have been used to estimate boater use over the 1990-2001 period, making it difficult to trace the source of discrepancies in the final estimates. For example, the boater passes have changed over the years.
From 1990-92, boaters would simply check off the river segments they...
The Oregon Plan is a state-led strategy for restoring and conserving native salmonids and the watersheds within which they spend all or parts of their lives. It evolved from work that began in the 1980s on watershed health and salmon conservation and was propelled into high gear by proposed and...
The popularity of Oregon Scenic Waterways continues to increase, indicating that
the public values these waterways more than ever. Oregon s exceptional endowment of
undeveloped rivers and lakes contributes in many important ways to the high quality of
life that residents and tourists enjoy, and is a key reason why...
The workshop emphasized large-scale conservation planning: the networks of conservation lands that are being planned at state and regional levels across the country. Ideally, this approach will help preserve the country's rich biodiversity by protecting its most viable habitats and species populations. This strategy represents current theories on the application...
Contents: Health Impediments to Academic Performance, Students' Personal Challenges During the First Year, What Do Students Say About Study Abroad?, Speaking: Fundamental for College Graduates?, Did You Know?, Assessment Highlights from Student Affairs Departments
Contents: What Do Incoming OSU First Year Students Tell Us?, Did You Know?, Total Immersion--Enhancing the OSU Student Experience, For Further Reading, Using Assessment Data in Student Life, OSU Perspective: What Is It?, Assessment Highlights from Student Affairs Departments
Contents: Student Leaders of Positive Innovation make Recommendations to Provost's Council, Student Affairs Council Wants You!, Gap Measurement Analysis: A Useful Model for Service Quality Assessment, Assessment Expert to Consult at OSU, MU Looks Good!
Contents: Rec Sports-An Excellent Place to Workout and Play! Students Rate MU as One of the Best! How Do Students Rate OSU Student Health Services Qualitiy? Use of External Resources for Conducting Assessment; What Do Students Who Use the OSU Counseling and Psychological Services Tell Us? GPA's of Students in...
This strategic plan is a bold and imaginative call for the libraries to reposition itself with the OSU community. Key stakeholder groups including faculty, students, and the Library Advisory Council expect the libraries to be a prominent player as Oregon State University moves to implement the campus strategic plan. Each...
HUC: 170900.
Bounding coordinates: West Bounding Coordinate: -123.769586; East Bounding Coordinate: -121.631074; North Bounding Coordinate: 45.941295; South Bounding Coordinate: 43.350360.
Contents: Use of a Large Scale Survey for Benchmarking Library Service Quality, "Matching Service" to Help Students Pick Roomies, OSU Odyssey--What Do Students Think?, First Year Students Tell Us about Their First Year at OSU.
This annotated bibliography was prepared for the Salmon Anchor Habitat Work Group. This group was formed by the Oregon Department of Forestry to review and evaluate the Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy as directed by the 2003 Oregon Legislature. The Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy is a component of management plans developed...
Contents: Student Affairs Use of Large Scale Surveys, OSU Symposium Slated for Fall, 2004, Entering OSU First Year Students, First Year Student Experiences, Faculty and Students Respond to Surveys of Student Engagement, Student Affairs Assessment Team Invited to NC State Assessment Symposium
The primary purpose of this Guide is to encourage private landowners to conserve, and when appropriate, actively manage Oregon white oaks that already exist on their property, and consider planting additional oaks. In the early chapters of the Guide, we describe some of the uses and benefits of this remarkable...
Contents: OSU Student Learning and Assessment Symposium A Success, Key OSU Results on the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement, 20 Tips for Survey Design, What is the Bologna Process?, For Further Reading, Student Affairs Assessment Council Wants You!, Faculty and Students Invited to Respond to Surveys on Student Engagement...
Contents: OSU Students of Color Results on the National Survey of Student Engagement, Project DEEP: Documenting Effective Educational Practices, First Year Students' Opinions on Social and Political Issues, For Further Reading, Student Affairs Assessment Council Updates.
Contents: Greater Expectations, University Assessment Council Launched, Financial Aid - Working to Help Students Succeed, So Many Outcomes So Little Time (How to Focus Your Assessment), For Further Reading.
The INR worked with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to propose an integrated study design for collecting data on Native Fish, Indexes of Biotic Integrity and Water Quality, and Riparian Area Condition and Function. Estimated costs...
Overview of the work of the Faculty Senate Scholarly Communication Task Force regarding inaccessibility and lack of sustainability of current publication model. Report includes three tables listing journals in which HDFS faculty have published in recent years, publisher, cost, impact factors and whether the journals are published by scholarly societies...
Includes general information about journal costs and costs of commercial versus society publications. Spreadsheet represents the journals in which faculty in the Chemistry Department most often publish and includes journal title, cost, impact factor, publisher, and information about whether the journal is published by a scholarly society or a for-profit...
Analyzes subscription costs and impact factors for journals in which COAS faculty most frequently published from 1994-2003. Includes a spreadsheet with journal title, subscription cost, impact factor, publisher, information about whether the journal is published by a non-profit or commercial publisher, and cost per page.
Reports the work of the 2004/2005 Oregon State University Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Communication. Report: Determines the current practices that impede an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication, citing data where necessary to substantiate the findings;
2. Determines actions that OSU faculty members, as authors, readers, reviewers,...
The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP) has articulated a set of overarching Guiding Principles to frame the creation of a new national ocean policy. When taken collectively, these principles provide a careful, circumspect, and ambitious context from which to develop policies that will promote vibrant coastal communities, healthy and...
This handbook was developed in order to help departments in Student Affairs continue to improve their services and programs through the implementation of intentional, meaningful, and sustainable assessment programs.
Contents: Student Success: Creating conditions that Matter, What OSU First Year Students Say About Their First Few Months of Residential Experience, Student Borrowing and Debt Burden, and Thoughts on First Year Retention.
The summary data reports academic standing of undergraduate students at the end of each term, Fall 2002 (200301) through Winter 2006 (200602) showing academic reinstatements as of the beginning of the term, arranged by college.
Contents: National Sruvey of Student Engagement, Weatherford Hall: The Living and Learning Environment; International Assessment and Retention Conference; Faculty Survey of Student Engagement--OSU Results
Bill Plumb has been working with his wife to run this restaurant for 23 years. This interview was conducted in the restaurant after all the customers have gone.
We met at the Gathering Place at 10 AM. She was 60 and fit and pretty. She was a newcomer and just moved here 3 summers ago. I knew her because her friends is my host grandmother. I just knew I had to meet the person behind the famous cinnamon...
Elvia lives in a large house that looks shabby from the outside, but it is really well maintained inside – very clean with nice furniture. A few of her kids were home when I arrived, and they entertained themselves during out interview and were very well behaved. Elvia had just...
Bob woke up at 4:00 this morning. He was dressed in blue jeans, white long-sleeved t-shirt, in general, very clean. He also wore gloves but I don’t think he actually did anything that required them. He wore large glasses and a white cowboy hat. Bob’s been interviewed multiple times before,...
Date and Time: 23 July 2007, 1:30 pm
I met Danielle at the pool when I went to interview other lifeguards. Her mom happened to be there with her to drive her over to the kiddie pool where Danielle is the only lifeguard during the week. I met her there...
Friday, July 27, 2007 9:09 a.m.
Ivan forgot about our first, scheduled, interview which I had set up while at break-fast with Dave at Jerry’s. I really doubt I ever would have gotten to talk to the guy if I didn’t have that in at the beginning. We were just...
William is a Korean War veteran. He is very soft spoken and has wild crazy hair. He agreed to be interviewed and it takes place in the kitchen of his home. He paid more attention to the TV that was on in the living room than he did me to...
Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:42 a.m.
I spoke to Bill at a horse show that his wife and daughter were both competing in. He was weaving Hackamores, a skill which I interviewed him about. I asked him those questions related to his weaving, although I did so without the recorder...
We met at the Commissioner’s office in Lakeview and sat in the hearing room. Ken wore jeans, cowboy boots, and a button-down shirt. He had gray hair that is thinning and he is in good shape. He is soft spoken and was eager to fit this interview into his schedule....
Aimee Davidson is the youngest of three daughters of Bill and Carla Albertson. She currently lives down the street from her parents and is married to Ryan Davidson. This interview was conducted outside, on her parent’s front porch.
I interviewed Jennifer while the Staubs were having a BBQ for their new neighbors. She is a student at OIT in Klamath and home for the summer in Lakeview. She seemed happy to do the interview and was a valuable resource on account of her being the only one I...
I met Ora Temple in a bar and asked if we could set up an interview. He agreed and we eventually got together at the Lionesses BBQ. He’s not a big talker, but he is charming. We interviewed while I was volunteering and there was a lull in cafeteria. John...
• Moved to Lakeview 5 years ago.
• Retired ranchers; husband’s family was in ranching.
• Worked in school as teacher’s aid and administrator for 27 years.
Date and Time: 23 July 2007, 2:45 p.m.
Desiree Corona works at Blarney Bros and when the manager left for the day, she was left in charge. She is a Sandwich Artist and has been working there for about a year and during that time has been promoted to not...
Roger Linton is a newcomer to Lakeview. He and his wife, now live here with their two children. This interview was conducted on a picnic table in between his old house and a house that’s currently being built. In the background are chickens, birds, as well as several deer. Accompanying...
Alice Hancock has worked a variety of jobs in her days. Before she retired, she was a school cook at the Union School. This interview was conducted in her living room.
Date and Time: 20 July 2007, 10:50 a.m.
Steven is the owner and manager of Stewarts. I met him briefly before this sche-duled interview which took place in his office at Stewarts and was not recorded. He seemed like the kind of person who was all about marketing and maximizing...
Carol is the process of moving and has many things to do today. We met in the sun porch room of the senior center where she had just finished eating lunch. During this interview I felt like a proctor because she seemed unaware of a lot of the questions I...
Sharon and I met at her house and conducted the interview at her kitchen table. I have been staying with her in Lakeview, so we already knew each other pretty well. She wore Capri spandex pants and an oversized t-shirt. She rarely brushed her hair, and it was tied back...
Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:03 a.m.
Debra was at the horse show to watch her granddaughter and, since her children were friends of the Staubs, allowed me an interview. She was a staunch Lakeview sup-porter and I think she felt a little confronted and suspicious, at first, of my motives...
Interview done by Ami Allain with Mary Steward on July 26th, 2007. The interview took place at about 11 o'clock am and it took place at the coffee shop The Gathering Place.
This interview was obtained as I was in there working on other homework and Joan and Nancy asked...
This interview with Jackie takes place at the elderly foster home. Jackie is the only mentally sane patient left at the nursing home she is 81 yrs old and has been living at the nursing home for 5 yrs. She seems happy and is very nice and open to answering...
Date and Time: 23 July, 9 a.m.
Jamie moved to Lakeview 14 months ago with her fiancé who works for the Forest Service. They joke about how her job at the Extension Office has been more of a career advancement for her than moving here for her fiancé’s job has...
At Jerry’s restaurant in Lakeview, I contacted Geraldine through the Energy As-sistance Program and she agreed to speak about the services that are available to those who need them
Mon wore a dark pair of jeans and a light yellow and pink shirt with decorations of flowers. Her nails are well cared for. Her hair was short and curly; they hide almost all of her ears. She puts on her rectangular glasses from time to time, mostly to read...
Date and Time: 17 July 2007, 3:40 p.m.
Brandon is McKenna and Cara’s swim coach, I interviewed him in the kitchen at the OSU Extension Office. He seemed eager to interview about food and arrived almost immediately after I talked to him on the phone. He struck me as the...
Interview by Ami Allain with Tina Copeland at about two o'clock.
Originally I was supposed to interview another person, but because she had a sudden meeting come up the day of the interview Tina Copeland stepped in to be interviewed instead. The interview took place in a little office that...