Data acquisition is the foundation of sound decision making. Therefore, after the work of the empiricist who laid the philosophical foundation of the data driven inference (Berkeley, 2003; Hume, 1902; Locke, 1860), significant efforts were carried in developing methods aiming at acquiring representative information for describing reality. The main instrument...
Raising the Tents tracks a woman's retrieval of her voice. In these poems we join a woman on her journey to find meaning and wholeness. Ms. Adler's personal mythology evolves from a belief in the possibility for change and a Jewish heritage emphasizing ancestry. She explores the silencing of women...
"Originally printed in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Jahrgang 1924, Heft 1-4"--Preface.
"The tribes which are the most fully described in these notes are the Snohomish, the Snuqualmi and the Nisqually. There is some information about ... other ... groups."
Gerald W. Williams Collection. Issued also as Senate rept. 928, 51st Cong., 1st sess. [pt.I] Report of committee and Views of the minority. v.1. The Northwest. v.2. The Great Basin region and California. -- [pt.II] v.3. Rocky Mountain region and Great Plains. v.4. Statements by Director Powell and other officers...
Wild life in Oregon : being a stirring recital of actual scenes of daring and peril among the gigantic forests and terrific rapids of the Columbia River (the Mississippi of the Pacific slope). And giving life-like pictures of terrific encounters with savages ... Including a full, fair and reliable history...
This document includes the mapping of all the major Oregon Estuaries. In addition to the maps there are aerial photographs of each area and information concerning the estuaries.
Folded col. map in pocket: Mt. Rainier National Park, Wash. / Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; R.B. Marshall, chief geographer ; T.G. Gerdine, geographer in charge ; topography by F.E. Matthes [and others]. Ed. of 1934. Scale 1:62,500 ; polyconic proj. (W 121°55ʹ--W 121°30ʹ/N 47°00ʹ--N 46°45ʹ). "The...
Metro received grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1995 to gather digital, or computerized, geographic data for the Clackamas River watershed. This atlas was produced as one way to share the information collected with resource managers, policy makers, and people living in and interested in the Clackamas...
In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, a recently retired medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when abroad (Commonly called the Blews).' Revised almost until the time of Buchanan's death in...
The Oregon Guide is the major accomplishment of the Oregon Writers' Project of the WPA. More than the conventional guide book, this volume attempts to present the history and heritage of Oregon as well as its numerous points of interest and the contemporary scene. Though designed to portray Oregon to...
"This guidebook is intended to serve as a reference to help local governments plan for the protection of wetlands and meeting the requirements of statewide planning goals, particularly Goal 5. This guidebook does not create any new policy; it only seeks to explain existing statutes and administrative rules. Background and...
The trails included in this book will lead you to mountain-top vistas, lakes, waterfalls and old-growth forests, towering secondgrowth forests, rocky bluffs and alpine meadows. We've included a variety of trails:
• short walks for those seeking fresh air and a place to stretch their legs
• medium length trails...
How to use this guide (quoted from prefatory material).
If part of your job is to lead or facilitate meetings in any setting then this guidebook is for you. Although its primary focus and examples are on meetings held with the public and other agencies outside Bonneville Power Administration the...