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The Willamette River greenway : cultural and environmental interplay

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  • The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, viewed in terms of a cultural-ecological system, has been subject to three phases of cultural development: hunting and gathering, agragarian, and industrial-urban. Each population base has employed a technology to exploit the environment to the extent that its patterns of culture would allow. This technology has been oriented towards one relevant resource within the ecological system--the Willamette River. The environmental quality of the Willamette River began to show signs of impairment with the onset of the industrial­-urban development, and the use of a more sophisticated tech­nology. Only through the efforts of a few concerned citizens did the quality of the water begin to improve by the mid­-Twentieth Century. The Willamette River Greenway emerges as a governmental response to renew the relevant resource of the cultural­ ecological system. Public attitudes toward the Greenway indicate that basin residents feel industrial-urban tech­nology should be utilized to renew the Willamette River, allowing it to once again become the cultural focal point of the ecological system.
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  • Financial support for this report was partially provided through the United States Department of Interior, Office of Water Research and Technology, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, and by support from Utah State University.
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