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  • Forestry

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    Avery, Bonnie E.
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    A broad definition of forestry would include the study of trees, forests, and the habitat they provide as well as their use by people. Modern, "science-based" forestry began in the nineteenth century when Europeans looked for specialists who could address questions on wood supply and extraction both at home and...
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    representative and by no means exhaustive. In 2001, faculty members in the College of Forestry at Oregon State

  • Ecological Forestry : A Critical Analysis

    Creator:
    Batavia, Chelsea
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    Although science is widely accepted as a fundamental source of information underlying decisions about forest management and conservation, considerably less attention has been paid to the inevitable role that normative values and beliefs play in such decisions. This thesis highlights the normative dimensions of "ecological forestry," a strategy of forest...
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    dimensions of “ecological forestry,” a strategy of forest management that uses silviculture to mimic the

  • Forestry & Communication : A Coos Bay Case Study

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    Livingstone, Tasha
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    This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
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    tribal lands, and another 1% belong to additional public ownerships (Oregon Department of Forestry

  • (Re)claiming forestry : a case study of women's empowerment

    Creator:
    Redmore, Lauren E.
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    Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owners control a significant portion of forestland nationwide. Even though women own or manage NIPF lands, we know very little about how women manage forestland and what barriers women face in forest management. In addition, while there are several forestry organizations available to NIPF owners, few...
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    by Oregon Forest Resources Institute and the Oregon Department of Forestry in 2005, estimated that

  • Comparing the effectiveness of virtual and traditional forestry field tours

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    Easley, Elissa C.
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    Virtual tours are among the many new Internet-based tools with potential applications as continuing forestry education programs. While technology exists to create virtual tour websites, little is understood about how well they meet educational objectives and whether they are complementary alternatives to traditional field tours. The Sustainable Forestry Partnership and...
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    Effectiveness of Virtual and Traditional Forestry Field Tours. J 11 ,,.., J Signature redacted for privacy

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    Chair of the Department of History Dean of the Graduate School I understand my

  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    DISSERTATION Submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • 'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

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    Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
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    Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
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    A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    submitted to Oregon State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor