Bøger udgivet af Oregon State University

In the past 100-plus years, forestland ownerships have gone through two structural changes: the accumulation of industrial timberlands between 1900s and 1980s and the transformation of industrial timberlands to institutional ownerships afterwards. This book is about the history and economics of these two structural changes.

Drawing on the author's experience as a paddler and as the leader of an environmental nonprofit working to protect the Willamette River, this book illustrates what it is like to travel the Willamette River Greenway. It also provides an account of how the State of Oregon and other entities fail to protect the river's water quality and habitat.

At times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has forged an off-the-grid life, but of the ragtag terrain of the human heart.

Louise Wagenknecht grew up in one of the West's last company lumber towns, Hilt on the California-Oregon border. There she witnessed the dying years of a unique way of life. White Poplar, Black Locust is the story of transformation, but it is also a noteworthy addition to the literature of place, and a sensitive and richly textured family memoir.

Born into an Odawa family in Michigan in 1932, Frances 'Geri' Roossien lived a life that was both ordinary and instructive. As a child, she attended Holy Childhood Boarding School; as an adult, she coped with trauma through substance abuse; and in recovery she became an elder who developed tribally centred programs for addiction and family health.

A book about how and why to become an engaged, activist citizen - and about how activists can stay grounded, no matter how deeply they immerse themselves in the work. The book also offers an intimate, firsthand look at policing: about what policing is and could be, and how police can and should be responsive to and inclusive of civilians' voices.

Offers an expanded, pictorial review of the history of painting in Oregon from 1859-1959. The book expands the focus on the history of painting in Oregon, adding essays on Impressionism and Modernism while using more and better visual examples to illustrate the strength of the state's early painters.

Asks how we might come to know the unknowable - in this case, whales, these animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or, if you're lucky, a split-second breach before diving away.

Presents writings that span fifty years in the life of David Schuman. The fiction, speeches, articles, judicial opinions, and dissents brought together here for the first time offer a window into the unique jurisprudence and vision of a man steeped in literature, political theory, and law.

Designed for readers interested in natural and environmental history and specifically the natural history of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. This book draws on a wide array of scientific research to tell stories such as how streams provide energy to the adjacent forest, and how a network of fungi keeps forests healthy.

The year Mary is 38, the suicide of a stranger in a nearby reservoir compels her to make a change. She decides to strike out for Alaska and take a chance on love and home. Divided into sections detailing the main kayaking strokes, this memoir shows how each can be a metaphor for the lives we all pass through and the tools we need to stay afloat.

Offers a collection of personal essays that portray the life of Catherine Doucette, a backcountry skier, horseback rider, and mountainee - roles that have resulted in adventures where she is often the only woman in a group of men.

Rich with boyhood remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s through the 1990s, this book is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence, told in overlapping personal essays that pull the reader through turning points in a household crowded with dysfunction, and toward the healing that comes after reconciliation.

Part memoir, part scholarly exploration of the psychological and societal dimensions of ""place-creation"", Canyon, Mountain, Cloud details the author's experience working and living in several American parks and protected areas.

Presents the searing eyewitness testimony and ground-breaking legal arguments that persuaded the court that fracking and resulting climate warming breach both substantive and procedural rights guaranteed by international law, that governments are complicit in these rights-violations, and that the practice of fracking should be banned.

Considers long-standing issues in the management of public lands in the American West such as endangered species, land use, and water management, while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, and land use rebellions.

Journalist Lori Tobias arrived on the Oregon Coast in 2000, having lived and worked in places as varied as Philadelphia and Anchorage. Tobias's story is as much her own as it is the coast's; she takes the reader through familiar beats of life, the decline of journalism, and the unexpected experiences of a working reporter.

Cascade Head, on the Oregon Coast between Lincoln City and Neskowin, offers stunning ocean views, good hiking, and habitat for a variety of species, and is one of Oregon's most productive research areas. Bruce Byers draws from his experiences living and working at Cascade Head to present an overview of its ecological and human landscape.

A story of growing up in turmoil, of a childhood split between a charming, mercurial, abusive father in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and a mother struggling with poverty in The Dalles. It is also a story of generational turmoil, of violent men, societal restrictions, of children not always chosen and often raised alone.

Takes readers from a small university town in Wyoming into the human and natural landscapes of remote and dangerous areas in the world. For two decades, the author lived a restless life exploring pockets of the world in transition, always finding a route back to Laramie, the home that shaped him - a place he loved but needed to leave.

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest is a slice of classic Oregon: due east of Eugene in the Cascade Mountains, the Andrews Forest comprises almost 16,000 acres of the Lookout Creek watershed. William Robbins turns his attention to the long-overlooked Andrews Forest and argues for its importance to environmental science and policy.

Offers a visual dive into the physical presence of a plant that many people discuss but few could identify. Kenneth Helphand has scoured archives across the state to bring together historic photos of hop pickers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The photos range from the candid to the highly professional.

A comprehensive history of Oregon State University, placing the institution's story in the context of state, regional, national, and international history. Rather than organising the narrative around institutional presidencies, Robbins examines the broader context of events, such as wars and economic depressions, that affected life on the Corvallis campus.

After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life. Salmon Is Everything presents the script of that play, along with essays by artists and collaborators that illuminate the process of creating and performing theatre on Native and environmental issues.

During the short span of her career, Hazel Hall became one of the West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce, crystalline verse was frequently compared with that of Emily Dickinson. Her three books, published to critical acclaim in the 1920s, are reissued here in paperback for the first time.

Ada Hastings Hedges was one of Oregon's foremost poets of the mid-twentieth century. This book brings together her known poems, including a complete annotated reprint of her famous Desert Poems of 1930.

A history of Oregon's North Santiam Canyon, which traverses topics as varied as the interaction between Native and non-Native peoples throughout time, railroad development, land fraud in the nineteenth century, changing fortunes in the timber industry, and questions about economic and environmental sustainability into the twenty-first century.

By the dawn of the new millennium, the Pacific Northwest sported a diversified economy. Beer, tourism, and tech moved in alongside timber and wheat as the region's mainstay industries. Facing The World highlights these changes, as well as the politicians, businesses, and ordinary people that helped bring them about.

In the past twenty years, two of California's seven abalone species have joined the US Endangered Species list, and even the hardiest now faces the ecological collapse of its home habitat. How - in our time - did the fate of the delicious, wondrous, and once abundant abalone become so precarious?