Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...
The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Interest is expanding for the potential role of estuaries, particularly seagrass and salt marsh habitats, to sequester carbon, mitigate ocean acidification, and support abundant fisheries. The important functions of estuaries are part of a broader set of ecosystem services, or benefits to humans, which are regulated by ocean and watershed...
Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest,
the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly
developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center
of very important native trade networks that extended over
western North America and a site of important intertribal
rituals relating to renewal...
The group of scientists that make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found in 2007 that the warming of Earth’s climate is unequivocal and largely due to human activity. Earth’s climate has changed in the past, though the recent magnitude and pace of changes are unprecedented in human existence....
The thesis area consists of 42 square miles located
in Madison and Gallatin counties, Montana, in the southern
part of the Madison Range. The strata exposed in the
area range in age from Precambrian to Quaternary and have
an aggregate thickness of more than 7,600 feet.
The Paleozoic rocks, about...
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A THESIS
submitted to
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for
The following report presents a summary of the work conducted between
1 March 1973 and 31 December 1973 as proposed in our research contract "The
Development of Methods for Studying Physical and Biological Processes in
the Nearshore Zone on the Pacific Coast of the United States," supported by
the Eugene...