While the public trust doctrine at common law placed effective limitations on the Crown, these limitations have been somewhat obscured by state court decisions in the United States. Though some courts have suggested that the public trust places limitations or the power of the legislature to convey lands beneath navigable...
Sometime ago, the Division of State Lands, working with funds provided by the United States Government, under the Emergency Employment Act of 1971, performed a study and analysis of the ownership of submersible lands (tidelands) in each of Oregon's major estuaries. The results of our study are contained in this...
This document includes the mapping of all the major Oregon Estuaries. In addition to the maps there are aerial photographs of each area and information concerning the estuaries.
Exceptional data are available for the study of the salmon runs of the Columbia River in 1938. Detailed figures on catch were supplied by Oregon and Washington in such form that they could readily be combined with the counts at Bonneville Dam to provide a basis for estimating the escapement....
A study of the fishery problems raised by the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam on the upper Columbia River was done. Part of the study was to estimate the number of salmon taken in commercial fishery for the purpose of comparing this with the number counted as they passed...