This document is a summary of the activities of the Wildlife Division for the period of July 1, 1977 to June 30, 1978. It includes numbers of hunting licenses, increased prices of furs, and both large and small game statistics including elk, bears, pheasants, and quail. The document also discusses...
With advancing computational resources, 3-D inversion techniques have become feasible in recent years and are now a more widely used tool for magnetotelluric (MT) data interpretation. Galvanic distortion caused by small-scale near-surface inhomogeneities remains an obstacle for 3-D MT inversion which so far has experienced little attention. If not considered...
The current study was a content analysis of court opinions on grandparent
visitation rights using the method of grounded theory. The research questions
addressed in this study were: (a) On what bases were grandparents granted legal
standing to petition for visitation with their grandchildren? (b) What was the legal
reasoning...
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships
among leadership style (telling, selling, participating and
delegating), personality preferences (Extravert/Introvert,
Sensing/Intuitive, Feeling/Thinking, Judging/Perceiving and
effectiveness as a consultant teacher. The sample consisted of
thirty-one consultant teachers from Oregon: twenty from the
Portland School District, five from the Gresham School...
Astragalus diaphanus is a rare plant endemic to the
John Day River drainage of north-central Oregon. This
species has several interesting features, including the
dimorphism of its fruit and its geographical isolation from
the two nearest taxonomically related species, which occur
in Colorado. This study addressed the species' distribution
and...
The wood-based building products industry has experienced significant turbulence over the past several decades as a function of multiple forces including among others globalization, product and process innovation, and shifting customer and consumer interest and demands. Collectively, these changes have challenged the historical tenets which have defined industry strategy and...
The defining feature of our planet are the oceans, which make up 70% of the Earth’s surface. The importance of the ocean cannot be understated: 50% of oxygen originates from phytoplankton; heat is absorbed and redistributed by ocean currents; and hundreds of millions of people rely on the ocean for...
This compilation follows the Fifty-Seven-Year Index to the Sierra Club Bulletin annuals, 1893-1949, compiled by Dorothy H. Bradley and George Shochat and published by the Club in 1952. This index covers the monthly issues from 1950 through 1976 as well as the annuals, which were dated as monthly issues but...