Author: Sheldon D. EricksenPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Occupance in the Upper Deschutes Basin, Oregon
Author: Sheldon D. EricksenPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Landscapes of Promise
Author: William G. RobbinsPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not only a creation of modern industrial society. Native Americans altered their environment in a number of ways, including the planned annual burning of grasslands and light-burning of understory forest debris. Early Euro-American settlers who thought they were taming a virgin wilderness were merely imposing a new set of alterations on an already modified landscape. Beginning with the first 18th-century traders on the Pacific Coast, alterations to Oregon's landscape were closely linked to the interests of global market forces. Robbins uses period speeches and publications to document the increasing commodification of the landscape and its products. "Environment melts before the man who is in earnest," wrote one Oregon booster in 1905, reflecting prevailing ways of thinking. In an impressive synthesis of primary sources and historical analysis, Robbins traces the transformation of the Oregon landscape and the evolution of our attitudes toward the natural world.
Landscapes of Conflict
Author: William G. RobbinsPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon’s citizens — rural and urban — would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving. The same trees that provided income to timber corporations, small mill owners, loggers, and many small towns in Oregon, also provided a dramatic landscape and a home to creatures at risk. The rivers whose harnessing created power for industries that helped sustain Oregon’s growth — and were dumping grounds for municipal and industrial wastes — also provided passageways to spawning grounds for fish, domestic water sources, and recreational space for everyday Oregonians. The story of Oregon’s accommodation to these divergent interests is a divisive story between those interested in economic growth and perceived stability and citizens concerned with exercising good stewardship towards the state’s natural resources and preserving the state’s livability. In his second volume of Oregon’s environmental history, William Robbins addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve these conflicts. Among the people who have had roles in this process, journalists and politicians Richard Neuberger and Tom McCall left substantial legacies and demonstrated the ambiguities inherent in the issues they confronted.
Foreign Field Research Program
Author: Urbanization and Changing Land Uses
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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This annotated bibliography was compiled as one of the early steps in an economic appraisal of impacts of urban growth on rural land use.
Rural Occupance in Transition
Author: David E. ChristensenPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Oregon Geography
Author: Samuel Newton DickenPublisher:
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Geographies of the Mind
Author: John Kirtland WrightPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Water Budget of the Tigris and Euphrates Basin
Author: Wafīq Ḥusayn KhashshābPublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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