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Salmon Fishers of the Columbia By Courtland L. Smith, 1979. ISBN 0-87071-313-2. Hardcover, $21.95. EA comprehensive historical, social, and economic picture of the Columbia River salmon industry which noted environmental historian Richard White has described as "the best introduction to Columbia River salmon fishing." |
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Salmon Nation: People, Fish, and Our Common Home 2nd edition, An Ecotrust Book. Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman, 2003. ISBN 0-9676364-1-8. Paperback, $9.95. Salmon Nation leads readers deep into the watersheds of the West Coast in the company of six knowledgeable guides to better understand the most celebrated fish of western North America. |
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The Sandal and the Cave: The Indians of Oregon Luther S. Cressman Introduction by Dennis L. Jenkins 2005. ISBN 0-87071-059-1. Paperback, $14.95. Luther Cressman's 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory. The recovery of the woven sagebrush-bark sandal, found buried under a layer of volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Mazama, established a human presence in the Oregon Country much earlier than previously thought. Cressman's classic work The Sandal and the Cave offers a brief, lucid introduction to the prehistory of the first Oregonians. |
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Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family By Dayton O. Hyde, with a new introduction by Gretel Ehrlich, 2000. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-486-4. Paperback, $17.95. On a wilderness ranch in southern Oregon nearly half a century ago, Dayton Hyde dove into a rushing river to rescue the threatened nest of a sandhill crane. The egg saved from that nest hatched into a bird, and also into an amazing story. |
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Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests John C. Tappeiner II, Douglas A. Maguire, and Timothy B. Harrington 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-187-9. Paperback, $35.00 The only silviculture text to focus on the forests of the western U.S., primarily those in Oregon, Washington, and California, this comprehensive work includes detailed chapters on fire, shrub ecology, density measurements, thinning, stand and tree growth, reforestation, vegetation management, and ecosystem variables such as insects, fungi, soils, and water stress. Readers will come to understand the significance of carefully managing forests by conscious design, providing for a range of forest ecosystems and consumable resources. |
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Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore By Shannon Applegate 2005. ISBN 0-87071-119-9. Paperback, $21.95. With the skill of a historian and the craft of a novelist, Shannon Applegate recounts the story of her prominent pioneer family over several generations?the dreams, hardships, mysteries, and joys. Skookum is an intimate, imaginative history that looks beyond the well-known lives of the Applegate men to give voice to the amazing women of the family. Selected for the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission's Literary Oregon: 100 Books 1800-2000. |
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Spirit of the Siskiyous: The Journals of a Mountain Naturalist By Mary Paetzel. Edited by Jacqueline Elliott and Lee Webb. Preface by Robert Michael Pyle., 1998. ISBN 0-87071-449-X. Paperback, $21.95. This collection of nature writings and artwork chronicles a self-taught naturalist's personal journey through the wilderness |
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The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature Edited Suzi Jones and Jarold Ramsey, 1994. Oregon Literature Series, volume 5. ISBN 0-87071-379-5. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-380-9. Paperback, $24.95. These traditional stories, songs, tales, and sayings--from Native American creation myths to spotted owl jokes--reveal the richness of Oregon's oral traditions. |
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Studies in Outdoor Recreation: Search and Research for Satisfaction, Second Edition By Robert E. Manning, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-463-5. Paperback, $24.95. An essential resource for students, scholars, and professionals, Studies in Outdoor Recreation explores the theoretical and methodological issues in outdoor recreation and describes the practical implications of outdoor recreation research. |
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Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries Edited by Shannon Applegate and Terence O'Donnell, 1994. Oregon Literature Series, volume 6. ISBN 0-87071-377-9. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-378-7. Paperback, $24.95. These writings by ordinary Oregonians reveal a personal side of Oregon history, filled with the concrete details of everyday life. |
| Tall Tales from Rogue River: The Yarns of Hathaway Jones Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1991. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-512-7. Paperback, $16.95. The tall tales of a colorful man who was proud of his reputation as the biggest liar in the country. |
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Teaching Oregon Native Languages Edited by Joan Gross 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-193-0. Paperback, $24.95 This timely and necessary resource will educate all readers about the important efforts underway to revitalize Oregon's first languages. |
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A Textbook of Horseshoeing for Horseshoers and Veterinarians By Anton Lungwitz. John W. Adams, translator, 1966. ISBN 0-87071-026-5. Paperback, $24.95. This reprint of a textbook first published in 1884 is still one of the best manuals on the subject ever published. |
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The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age, 2nd Edition By Gail Wells, 2004. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-006-0. Paperback, $19.95. Debates over the fate of ancient forests have been commonplace in the Pacific West for decades. The Tillamook takes up the question of younger forests, exploring the creation of a managed forest and what its story reveals about the historic and future role of second-growth forests. |
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Timber By Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Glen A. Love, 1993. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-514-3. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN 0-87071-515-1. Paperback, $15.95. The story of a friendship between two men and a woman they both love, set in the Northwest woods during the heyday of steam logging. |
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To Build a Ship By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-040-0. Paperback, $17.95. To Build a Ship tells the story of a handful of settlers who take up land in the fertile Tillamook Bay Valley in the early 1850s-defiant dreamers battling the wilderness. With impenetrable mountains at their backs and the open sea as their sole road to trade, they are suddenly isolated from the outside world when the only captain willing to enter their harbor dies. With the survival of their new settlement threatened, they decide to build their own schooner. |
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To Harvest, To Hunt Stories of Resource Use in the American West Edited by Judith L. Li 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-192-3. Paperback, $18.95 To Harvest, To Hunt reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters, oral traditions, historical records, and personal experience, the book's contributors offer readers new perspectives on the land they live on, the harvests they consume, and the natural resources they manage. |
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Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest, Second Edition Kathie Durbin 2005. 352 pages. ISBN 0-87071-056-7. Paperback, $19.95. Set in Alaska's coastal rain forest, Tongass is a story by turns dismaying and inspiring, of greed, courage, bare-knuckles politics, and the fate of a remote, wild, beautiful land. Praised by Publishers Weekly as a "blow-by-blow account" of a messy controversy and an impressive example of thorough journalism," this new edition of Kathie Durbin's acclaimed volume updates the story of the Tongass and the fight for the Alaska rain forest. |
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Trask By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-023-0. Paperback, $18.95. Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast, Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first book, considered one of the finest historical novels of the American West. |
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Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West By David Axelrod, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-038-9. Paperback, $18.95. "This collection of wonderfully crafted essays demonstrates David Axelrod's remarkable talent for writing as well as his keen observations of both nature and humanity. Here we discover the intricacies of birds' nests and poetry, the excitement of beekeeping and stargazing, along with the hardscrabble of rural poverty, the challenges of being Jewish in the remote West. By turns humorous, wise, and poignant, Axelrod's prose is always graceful. Troubled Intimacies is a generous gift to the reader." --Craig Lesley
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Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests: Public Values in Canada and the United States Edited by Bruce Shindler, Thomas M. Beckley, and Mary Carmel Finley. 2003. ISBN 0-87071-561-5. Paperback, $34.95. Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests is the first book to examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the resulting impacts on resource policy in Canada and the United States. |
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Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 By Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-485-6. Paperback, $15.95. In 1909, Vic McDaniel and Ray Francisco, just out of high school, set out from Santa Rosa, California, on second-hand bikes, bound for the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc Exposition in Seattle. |
