A cornerstone of any university is its library. Consequently, the construction or renovation of a library is thus a major event on any college campus. In the spring of 1996, Oregon State University began such a significant transformation. Three years and $47 million later, the old Kerr Library has become...
This report has been prepared in support of the Pacific Northwest
Coastal Ecosystems Regional Study (PNCERS) to provide
a summary and compendium of the management of estuaries
in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that lie between Puget
Sound, Washington, and Cape Mendocino, California. Federal, state,
and local government...
The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior propose limited changes to language within the Aquatic Conservation Strategy, part of the Northwest Forest Plan. Projects needed to achieve Northwest Forest Plan goals have been delayed or stopped due to misapplication of certain passages in the Aquatic Conservation Strategy. The Secretaries are...
"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...
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...
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...