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Informal Education on an Estuary Nature Trail : A Study of Visitor Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior

Creator:: Osterman-Sussman, Irene
Abstract:: The Mark 0. Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) public education opportunities include interpretive programs offered along the Estuary Nature Trail. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of three informal education programs, interpretive signs, a self-guided trail brochure, and guided naturalist walks, in imparting information on the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Interest group evaluations of ecological, social, and management criteria for wilderness campsites

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce A.
Abstract:: Extensive use of wilderness campsites has caused resource deterioration in numerous backcountry locations. Resource managers are responsible for maintaining natural wilderness-like conditions in these areas and providing opportunities for the public to use and enjoy them. This requires that realistic standards for resource impacts be determined and that publicly supported...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

Creator:: Hastings, Kevin L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature

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

Creator:: Schweickert, Tina K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Oregon Historical Society, 1984), 804. 6 Gilbert LaFreniere, The Decline of Nature: Environmental

Types of household composition that influence energy problem beliefs and home energy conservation behaviors according to resource constraints among western United States' renters

Creator:: Yoo, Kyung Sook
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to further the understanding of two types of renter households' energy problem belief and energy conservation behaviors. The theoretical framework for this study was Niemeyer's (1982) model of energy adjustment. Niemeyer found that resource constraints were the significant factors in the number of existing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: behaviors has been performed. Buck (1982) compared Oregon renters' and nonrenters' home energy conservation

Habitat alteration and human disturbance : their impact on cougar habitat utilization in southwest Oregon

Creator:: Gagliuso, Robert A.
Abstract:: Eight cougars were radio-collared and monitored during 1985 - 1987. Home range size, determined by minimum convex polygons, averaged 153.1 km2 for females, 543.5 km2 for males. Core home range size, determined by harmonic mean analysis, averaged 21.7 km2 for females, 17.9 km2 for males. Home ranges of males and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sediment accumulation and human impacts in Tillamook Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Styllas, Michael N.
Abstract:: Tillamook Bay is the second largest estuary on the Oregon coast, and concerns have been raised whether human induced impacts have been responsible for the perceived increase in sedimentation rates during the past century. Major land-use practices within the five watersheds of the Bay include logging, forest fires, the construction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Sediment Accumulation and Human Impacts in Tillamook Bay. Oregon. Abstract approved:. __

Some economic aspects of shifting to conservation farming in the Columbia Basin wheat area

Creator:: Moberg, Leon Ernest
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wild Nature or the Garden: Conservation Themes in the

Comparison of Oregon renters' and non-renters' home energy conservation behavior, belief about the U.S. energy problem, belief about their home energy efficiency, and belief about four energy policy directions

Creator:: Buck, Lynn E.
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to address the three limitations of previous research as identified by the Western Region W-139 Technical Committee (1980). First, specific hypotheses were tested. Second, through hypotheses testing, understanding was gained of energy conservation behavior and energy problem perceptions. Third, the sample size was large...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Comparison of Oregon Renters' and Nonrenters' Home Energy Conservation Behavior, Belief About the U.S

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Informal Education on an Estuary Nature Trail : A Study of Visitor Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior

Interest group evaluations of ecological, social, and management criteria for wilderness campsites

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

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

Types of household composition that influence energy problem beliefs and home energy conservation behaviors according to resource constraints among western United States' renters

Habitat alteration and human disturbance : their impact on cougar habitat utilization in southwest Oregon

Sediment accumulation and human impacts in Tillamook Bay, Oregon

Some economic aspects of shifting to conservation farming in the Columbia Basin wheat area

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Comparison of Oregon renters' and non-renters' home energy conservation behavior, belief about the U.S. energy problem, belief about their home energy efficiency, and belief about four energy policy directions

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