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  • Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

    Creator:
    Crateau, Carole Ann
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    The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
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    Masters Thesis
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    promotes deeper ways of knowing Oregon and ourselves. History of a Bioregion: the Dialectic of Culture

  • Low Power Radio : An Antidote for Coastal Visitors Looking but not Seeing!

    Creator:
    Williams, Erin M.
    Abstract:
    State parks in Oregon provide important sites for visitor recreation and natural resource education. With the increasing number of visitors to Oregon coastal parks, tide pools and beach areas, there is growing need for site-specific marine education to enhance stewardship, interpretation and safety knowledge. The Oregon Sea Grant Program and...
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    Capstone Project
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    parks in Oregon provide important sites for visitor recreation and natural resource education. With the

  • Proposal to Establish Ruchi Glades Research Natural Area

    Creator:
    Murray, Michael
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    Ruchi Glades is proposed for designation as a Research Natural Area. It is located on the upper slopes of Oregon Caves National Monument which is administered by the National Park Service. Ruchi Glads has an impressive diversity of plant communities for such a small area. The Oregon Natural Heritage Plan...
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    Technical Report
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    PRNA during a field visit performed by the Oregon Natural Heritage Program during the summer of 2000

  • Modeling conservation incentives for private landowners

    Creator:
    Langpap, Christian
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    This dissertation consists of three papers on the use of incentives for conservation of endangered species on private land. The first paper examines incentives based on providing landowners with assurances regarding future regulation in exchange for their participation in a conservation agreement. The second and third papers are empirical analyses...
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    Dissertation

  • Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

    Creator:
    Gibson, Jennifer S.
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    On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Act NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service ODFW Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife OWEB

  • An analysis of the prerequisites for landowner participation in conservation oriented programs in the Wood River Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Thomas, Kelley A.
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    Before 2002, almost all of the approximately 40,000 acres of land in the Wood River Valley, Oregon were used for intensive, flood-irrigated summer cattle grazing, as it had been for over 100 years. Conservation activity in the valley was limited to a couple of wealthy landowners. But a year after...
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    Masters Thesis
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    endangered Coho salmon downstream of the Project farmers (BOR 2006). The Natural Resources Conservation

  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of

  • Conservation volunteer tourism at a reserve in Ecuador : effects of perceptions, discourse, and motivations on human-environment relations

    Creator:
    Grimm, Kerry E.
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    The number of people traveling to other countries to volunteer for conservation or humanitarian projects has increased dramatically in the past three decades. Despite substantial interest in volunteer tourism, few researchers have examined: (a) the role of promotional material (e.g., brochures, internet websites) in motivating volunteers; (b) factors that attract...
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    Dissertation
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    Rights Reserved Conservation Volunteer Tourism at a Reserve in Ecuador: Effects of Perceptions

  • Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

    Creator:
    Calvert, Daniel T.
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    This dissertation examines learning driven adaptations in salmon recovery efforts and water resources management in Oregon. The case study utilizes a framework highlighting the connections between human and natural systems. Semi-structured interviews are used to analyze interactions between rural riparian landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s...
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    Dissertation
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    drivers of learning, 2) natural resource management and learning interventions should be tailored