green valley of the Willamette. From its first white settlements, Oregon enjoyed a rich tradition of agricultural abundance that gave birth to stories creating an image of a bountiful land filled with promise. ...
4. The Wonder World of Pesticides
Because agriculture is important to Oregon's economic well-being, the industry has been a powerful institutional player in establishing state regulatory policies, including the use of chemicals to treat a host of agricultural problems. Oregon Department of Agriculture administrators...
III. Industrial Forestry Management
5. Planning and Technical Efficiency in the Forests
Social innovation and social experiments characterized many of the reform strategies of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration. The Resettlement Administration made a halfhearted effort to establish model communities for refugees from failed farming enterprises and disintegrating industrial centers...
6. Intensive Forestry and Citizen Activism
Before environmental impact assessments, court directives, and public access to information began to slow federal timber harvests, Northwest loggers cut a huge swath through the region's national forests between 1960 and the late 1980s. Bending to pressure from politicians and the forest products industry, the Forest Service developed...
IV. Of Rivers and Land
7. Richard Neuberger's Conservation Politics
Two major figures in both journalism and politics, Richard Neuberger and Tom McCall, played influential roles in Oregon's conservation and environmental communities in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Differing in journalistic talent and political temperament, Neuberger and McCall gained national reputations...
8. Tom McCall and the Struggle for the Willamette
For much of the twentieth century, nearly three-fourths of Oregon's population has lived in the Willamette Valley. Its 11,250 square miles have harbored the state's three largest cities, its major industries--sawmills, food-processing facilities, pulp and paper mills, flax-retting plants, packing houses, creameries, dehydrators, and textile mills...
9. Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use Nexus
In a reflective commentary on the western American appetite for uninhibited boosterism, historian and essayist Patricia Nelson Limerick offered this witty statement: "If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of Western history, its movies would be about real estate." While the celebratory sprawl that characterized the Los Angeles Basin...
Epilogue: This Special Place
Oregon writer Ken Kesey offered up a modern-day, real-life story in a brief personal memoir of his boyhood trek from eastern Colorado to Oregon during the war-hot summer of 1943. Kesey's father, who had enlisted in the Navy, was taking the family to Grandma and Grandpa's new farm in Coburg, Oregon, where they had recently moved "seeking richer dirt and brighter horizons." ...
Publication Year: 2004
OCLC Number: 669512871
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