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Communities and Forests offers a timely view of the changing face of forests and forestry in North America today. In examining interactions between people and forests, the book shows that forests are as much a social institution as they are a biol...

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For the¿first time in history, an international human-rights court has¿weighed the evidence that fracking and climate change¿systematically violate¿human rights.¿Bearing Witness¿presents the searing eyewitness¿testimony and ground-breaking legal a...

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There are five layers of the ocean, though most of us alive will only ever see one. The deepest layer of the ocean is called by some the midnight zone. The only light comes from bioluminescence, created by animals themselves. In order to see, the ...

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The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,0...

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The OSU Press is proud to introduce Linus Pauling's How to Live Longer and Feel Better to a new generation of readers interested in achieving excellent health. A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Pauling's seminal work...

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Part memoir, part scholarly exploration of the psychological and societal dimensions of "place-creation," Canyon, Mountain, Cloud details the author's experience working and living in several American parks and protected areas: Black Canyon of the...

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Something Hidden in the Ranges is designed for readers interested in natural and environmental history and specifically the natural history of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. We all see the largest features of ecosystems - the impressive...

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Rich with boyhood remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s through the 1990s, I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence, told in overlapping personal essays that pull the reader through ...

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A Voice for Justice presents writings that span fifty years in the life of David Schuman. The fiction, speeches, articles, judicial opinions, and dissents brought together here for the first time offer a window into the unique jurisprudence and vi...

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For 70 years, people have turned to one book to learn about Northwest trees:¿Trees to Know in Oregon.¿This new edition, retitled¿Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington,¿expands its scope to cover more territory and include more trees. ¿ The book w...

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At times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has forged an off-the-grid life, but of the ragtag terrain of the human heart. At once quiet and search...

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In the past 100-plus years, forestland ownerships have gone through two structural changes in the US and other parts of the world: the accumulation of industrial timberlands between 1900s and 1980s and the transformation of industrial timberlands ...

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Drawing on the author's experience as a paddler and as the leader of an environmental nonprofit working to protect and restore the Willamette River, this book illustrates what it is like to travel the Willamette River Greenway. It also provides a ...

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