Bøger udgivet af Oregon State University

An urban African American woman rises from secretary to leader in the USDA Forest Service of the twentieth century West. Along the way, she faces personal and agency challenges to become the first black female forest supervisor in the United States.

When DJ Lee's friend and mentor disappears in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, she travels there to seek answers. The disappearance unexpectedly brings to an end Lee's fifteen-year quest to uncover the buried history of her grandparents. Lee doesn't find all the answers but comes away with a penetrating memoir.

Offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon's wild and natural places and its high quality of life. These stories speak to their courage, foresight, and actions to save places, enact legislation, and motivate others to cherish the places that make Oregon unique.

A multidisciplinary work that ranges widely through a diverse and often under-appreciated land, drawing on the fields of environmental history, cultural and physical geography, and natural resource management to tell a comprehensive and compelling story.

Using the cultural history of Oregon's Nestucca Valley as a case study, Taylor illustrates the wisdom of seasonal labour, the complex relationships between work and identity, and the resilience of rural economics across a century of almost continual change.

Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. In this book he offers a technique of reimagining one's life story that might be available to anyone.

In 1974, at the age of thirty-two, Les AuCoin became the first Democrat to win a US House seat in Oregon's First District. He was one of the post-Watergate reformers who shook up Congress. In this collection of life stories, AuCoin traces his unlikely rise from a fatherless childhood in Central Oregon to the top ranks of national power.

For more than twenty-five years, Brian Campf collected vintage photographs and ephemera related to Oregon sports. Sporting Oregon includes approximately 350 images from Campf's extensive collection that offer an overview of the first fifty years of organised sports in Oregon, primarily baseball, football, and basketball.

Undercurrents recounts the life and career of John Byrne, who started his career as a geologist for an oil company and ended his career as president of a land-grant university. Byrne reveals the lessons he learned in the oil industry and in government as the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and how he used those lessons in leading Oregon State University as its president.

Weaves philosophical and spiritual interpretations of the natural world with personal, hands-on experiences of particular landed places. This book will be of interest to students of environmental ethics, religion, and nature, conservation practitioners, hunting and fishing enthusiasts, and all those who work to connect children with nature.

A collection of practical essays from more than three dozen professional interviewers, scholars, and teachers. This revised and expanded second edition of the popular professional tool features a new foreword and a dozen new chapters designed to aid journalists navigating the contemporary "fake news" and "enemy of the people" media landscape.

In the final story of their award-winning children's series, M.L. Herring's vivid pen and watercolour illustrations complement the storytelling of Judith Li. Readers will delight in the journal pages and maps "hand drawn" by Ricky and Ellie at the end of each chapter, while the "Dear Reader" section offers tips for budding citizen scientists.

Provides a lively and readable informal history of the labour, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. This book rescues these working-class activists from obscurity and places them at the centre of southwest Washington's history.

Ona balmy night in May 1970, David Axelrod vowed to allow no one and nothing he loved to pass from this life without praise, even if it meant praising the most bewildering losses. In these fourteen essays Axelrod delivers on that vow as he ranges across topics as diverse as marriage, Old English riddles, and the effects of climate change.

Possibly the most comprehensive and user-friendly ethnobotanical guidebook available in the Pacific Northwest, Gifted Earth features traditional Native American plant knowledge, detailing the use of plants for food, medicines, and materials.

Few books are devoted to the Pacific Northwest's unique linguistic heritage. The essays collected in Northwest Voices examine the historical background of the Pacific Northwest, the contributions of Indigenous languages, the regional legacy of English, and the relationship between our perceptions of people and the languages they speak.

With a foreword by William Kittredge and line drawings by Ursula K. LeGuin, this literary anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens region of Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Dam removal has become increasingly common, with dozens of removals now taking place each year in the US. How did this happen? Same River Twice answers this question by telling the stories of three major Northwestern dam removals - the politics, people, hopes, and fears that shaped three rivers and their communities.

Beneath the 24/7 national news cycle and argument over "fake news", there is a layer of journalism that communities absolutely depend upon. Grit and Ink offers a rare look inside the financial struggles and family dynamic that has kept a Pacific Northwest publishing group alive for more than a century.

Presents a broad and comprehensive picture of Oregon government and politics, shedding light on the profound changes that have remade Oregon politics in recent years. The book also seeks to make it clear that much has also remained the same.

Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West.

Examines the militia occupation of Harney County, Oregon, and the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. The book concludes that the militants failed in their objectives in large part because Harney County's citizens invested decades in building the capacity to collaboratively solve the very problems the militia claimed justified an anti-federal government revolution.

Three lives in ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika, a half-Samoan ex-con from California; Michael, a five-tour Iraq War Marine; and Sissy, a recent Catholic convert, must determine once and for all what love is. These three lives cannot escape the desperation of the past, combusting amidst poverty and drug use, post-traumatic stress disorder and recidivism.

The migrations of Wyoming's hooved mammals - mule deer, pronghorn, elk, and moose - between their seasonal ranges are some of the longest and most noteworthy migrations on the North American continent. Wild Migrations presents the previously untold story of these migrations, combining wildlife science and cartography.

There are days in late winter when the Pacific coast enjoys a brief spell of clear, warm weather. This is when some coastal communities plan their annual beach clean-ups. Ellie and Ricky travel to the Oregon coast to help with a one-day beach clean-up. Hoping to find a prized Japanese glass float, they instead find more important natural treasures, and evidence of an ocean that needs its own global-scale clean-up.

Provides a study of the women associated with the Industrial Workers of the World in the states of Oregon and Washington, from the time of the union's founding in 1905 until 1924. The union offered women an avenue for activism that did not focus primarily on the fight for suffrage. While female Wobblies were in favour of suffrage, they believed that organization in the workplace was the only way to true emancipation.

A clueless big-city guy, dropped out from newspaper work, ends up at a new hippie commune in the mountains in the late 1960s, but his luck holds. As he falls in love with the place, he moves into the local community, where people have a checkered opinion of hippies, but it's the kind of place where people help each other out, even if they don't always agree.

Peter Burnett, Oregon pioneer and governor of California, had one of the most impressive resumes of any early leaders in the American West, yet failed at most of his pursuits. A former slaveholder, he could never seem to get beyond his single-minded goal of banning black people and other minorities from the West.