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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

This in-depth examination of water law and management in Oregon provides a compelling perspective on a major environmental issues in the American West-the region's diminishing water supply. Bastasch offers thorough yet accessible explanations of a variety of water issues and controversies.

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.

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.

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.

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 an account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the west coast of North America: the Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962, which ploughed a path of destruction from the Bay Area to British Columbia. John Dodge tell stories of tragedy and heroism, loss and resilience, while drawing connections to climate science and more contemporary calamities, such as Superstorm Sandy.

This book shares stories of Hawaiian fishing families on the rural north east shore of island of Kauaʻi, a place many visit but few really see, inviting readers to think about how we all can be connected to and by place, along with the responsibilities this connection carries. This book offers teachings for living in conscious relationships with the natural world, without letting our desire for connection devour the places we love and the communities who are their keepers.

Tells the story of the only slavery case adjudicated in Oregon's pre-Civil War courts - Holmes v. Ford. Through the lens of this landmark case, R. Gregory Nokes explores the historical context of racism in Oregon and the West, reminding readers that there actually were slaves in Oregon, though relatively few in number.

With help from her parents, a forest manager and a wildlife biologist, and in the company of new friend Ricky, eleven-year-old Ellie Homesly fills a field notebook with sketches and notes about nature in the woods near her home. Includes suggestions on how to keep a field notebook. A teacher's guide is available online.

Based on papers presented at the World Salmonid Conference held Oct. 2-3, 1986, in Portland, Or. and sponsored by the Salmonid Foundation.

Veteran science writer Jon Luoma uncovers the inner workings of an ancient forest, from the microscopic bugs in the soil to the giant trees.

In his long and distinguished academic career, historian Robert Fox has specialized in the modern history of physical science, particularly in France, from 1700 onward. In Science Without Frontiers, he explores the discipline of science as a model for global society.

Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm Springs Paiute. These legends were originally told around the fires of Paiute camps and villages during the "story-telling season" of winter in the Great Basin of the American West. They were shared with Paiute communities as a way to pass on tribal visions of the "animal people" and the "human people," their origins and values, their spiritual and natural environment, and their culture and daily lives. The legends in this volume were recorded, transcribed, reviewed, and edited by Wilson Wewa and James Gardner. Each legend was recorded, then read and edited out loud, to respect the creativity, warmth, and flow of Paiute storytelling. The stories selected for inclusion include familiar characters from native legends, such as Coyote, as well as intriguing characters unique to the Northern Paiute, such as the creature embodied in the Smith Rock pinnacle, now known as Monkey Face, but known to the Paiutes in Central Oregon as Nuwuzoho the Cannibal. Wewa's apprenticeship to Northern Paiute culture began when he was about six years old. These legends were passed on to him by his grandmother and other tribal elders. They are now made available to future generations of tribal members, and to students, scholars, and readers interested in Wewa's fresh and authentic voice. These legends are best read and appreciated as they were told--out loud, shared with others, and delivered with all of the verve, cadence, creativity, and humor of original Paiute storytellers on those clear, cold winter nights in the high desert.