The Environmental Politics & Policy of Western Public Lands
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and often contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a...
Bearing Witness
Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in...
A Voice for Justice
As an educator, speaker, deputy attorney general, and judge, David Schuman was known for his ability to clarify difficult legal concepts. According to James Egan...
Willamette River Greenways
The Willamette River Greenway Program, first proposed in 1966 by future Oregon governor Bob Straub, envisioned a nearly two-hundred-mile assemblage of public lands along the...
Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary
In this companion volume to Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of planning Portland’s...
The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan
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...
One Sunny Day
“Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one...
Constructing a Democracy
Every ten years, states go through the process of redistricting: choosing how to divide up and apportion their state and federal legislative districts. How the...