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Despite frequent depiction as a bird of California and the desert southwest, North America’s largest avian scavenger once graced the skies of the Pacific Northwest, from northern California to British Columbia. This important volume documents the condor’s history in the region, from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century, and explores the challenges of reintroduction.

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In this rich and engaging history, Tami Parr shows how regional cheesemaking found its way back to the farm. It’s a lively story that begins with the first fur traders in the Pacific Northwest and ends with modern-day small farmers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

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Most conifer guides available for the Pacific Northwest focus on native species observed in the wild. Native and Ornamental Conifers in the Pacific Northwest presents an integrated perspective for understanding and identifying conifers in any landscape where native and ornamental species grow alongside each other.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In this innovative work, Julie Green asks a simple question: when you’re stepping out of prison after spending years incarcerated for a crime you didn’t commit, what’s the first thing you want to eat? From the small details of life at such a moment, a vast new landscape of the world can emerge, and that is the core concept of First Meal.

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Placing the Jackson County Rebellion squarely within America’s long tradition of populist uprisings against the perceived sins of an allegedly corrupt, affluent local elite, Jeff LaLande argues that this little-remembered episode is part of a long history of violent conflict in the West that continues today.

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This is the story of how albatross guided the author on her own long journey, retracing distances and decades, back to the origin of a binding bargain she struck when she was ten years old, shortly after her mother’s death. This is a natural history of the albatross, a moving memoir of grief, and a soaring tribute to ancestors.

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Examines the day-to-day reality of implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The diverse contributors to this volume reflect the viewpoints of tribes, museums, federal agencies, attorneys, academics, and others invested in the landmark act.

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A biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen Blair tells the story of the activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conservation battles of the 1980s, interweaving it with the natural and political history of the landscape that inspired her.

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A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, this book introduces the people who have shaped Oregon’s largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders appear, but Carl Abbott also highlights workers and immigrants, union members and dissenters, artists, and activists.

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The authors of this book have conducted years of research through the archives and newspapers of Tillamook County and conducted numerous interviews and oral histories of key players in the Cheese War and their families. This book tells the story of the very human factors behind one of Oregon’s most famous brands.

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A key component in healthy ecosystems, lichens can be found in almost any natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest. This comprehensive guide to the region’s macrolichens is intended for use by beginners as well as specialists.

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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.

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The year he graduated from college, 22-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. With wit, curiosity, and a deep knowledge of his subject, Strycker weaves a captivating tale of penguins and their researchers at the end of the Earth.

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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.

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Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result. In this book, three of those scientists tell the story as they know it.

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The twelve case studies in this volume demonstrate that giving back can happen through research itself - through the careful framing of questions, co-production of knowledge, and dissemination of results - but also through the day-to-day actions and attitudes of researchers that inevitably occur in the field.

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Argues that acknowledging the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.

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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.

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The first book to integrate the social science literature on outdoor recreation, this volume reviews studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizes them into a body of knowledge, providing an historical perspective on outdoor recreation research and developing its practical management implications.

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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.

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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.

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In his 80-plus years around birds, Michael Baughman has learned one immutable lesson: As long as you remain alive and human, the closer you get to birds, the more time you spend among them, the more you love them.

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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.

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Do hunting and fishing lead to the development of environmental virtues? This question is at the heart of philosopher Charles List’s engaging study, which provides a defence of field sports when they are practiced and understood in an ethical manner.

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Presents a collection of short essays that offer courage, hope, and even some laughter to the people who have for years been working for environmental sanity and social justice. To weary activists, Kathleen Dean Moore brings encouragement to join or keep on with the struggle.

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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?

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