Geog 607: Seminar on Reconstructing River Histories

Spring 2002 -- University of Oregon
Prof. Pat McDowell


Potential Readings  


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Historical Channel Change Case Studies

Brooks, G.R., 2000.  Channel changes along the lower reaches of major Mackenzie River tributaries.  In Dyke, L.D., and Brooks, G.R., eds., The Physical Environment of the Mackenzie River Valley, Northwest Territories: A Base Line for the Assessment of Environmental Change, p. 159-166.  Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 547.  

Burkham, D.E., 1972.  Channel changes of the Gila River in Safford Valley, New Mexico.  U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 655G.

Eschner, T. R., Hadley, R. F., Crowley, K. D., 1983, Hydrologic and morphologic changes in channels of the Platte River basin in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska; a historical perspective, Hydrologic and geomorphic studies of the Platte River basin, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1277, p. A-1 to A-39. 

Gurnell, A., and Petts, G.E., eds., 1995.  Changing River Channels.  New York: Wiley.  (On reserve)

Hulse, D., ed., 1998.  Willamette River Basin, A Planning Atlas.  University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment.  Map G1492.W5 P33 1998.  

Jacobson, Robert B., Primm, Alexander T., 1994, Historical land-use changes and potential effects on stream disturbance in the Ozark Plateaus, Missouri, USGS OF 94-0333.

James, L.A., 1989.  Sustained storage and transport of hydraulic gold mining sediment in the Bear River, California.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 79: 570-592.  

James, L.A., 1991.  Incision and morphologic evolution of an alluvial channel recovering from hydraulic mining sediment.  Geological Society of America Bulletin 103: 723-736.  

James, L.A., 1997.  Channel incision on lower American River, California, from streamflow gage records. Water Resources Research 33: 485-490.  

Johnson, W.C. 1992. Dams and riparian forests: case study from the upper Missouri River. Rivers 3(4):229-242.

Johnson, W.C. 1994. Woodland expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes. Ecological Monographs 64:45-84.

Johnson, W.C., R.L. Burgess, and W.R. Keammerer. 1976. Forest overstory vegetation and environment on the Missouri River floodplain in North Dakota. Ecological Monographs 46:59-84.

Knox, J.C., 1977. Human impacts on Wisconsin stream channels. Annals of the Assoc. of Amer. Geographers 67: 323-342. 

Kondolf, G.M., and Larson, M., 1995.  Historical channel analysis and its application to riparian and aquatic habitat restoration.  Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosytems 5: 109-126.  

Marston, R. A., Girel, J., Pautou, G., Piegay, H., Bravard, J.-P., and Arneson, C., 1995.  Channel metamorphosis, floodplain disturbance, and vegetation development: Ain River, France.  Geomorphology 13: 121-131.  

Martin, C.W., and Johnson, W.C., 1987. Historical channel narrowing and riparian vegetation expansion in the Medicine Lodge River Basin, Kansas, 1871-1983. Annals of the Assoc. of Amer. Geographers 77: 436-449.  

McDowell, P. F., 2001. Spatial variation of channel morphology at the segment and reach scales, Middle Fork of the John Day River, northeastern Oregon.    Pp. 159-172 in Geomorphic Processes and Riverine Habitat, Dorava, J., and others, eds., American Geophysical Union, Water Science and Application series, Vol. 4.  Washington DC: American Geophysical Union. 

McDowell, P. F., 2000.  Human impacts and river channel adjustment, northeastern Oregon: Implications for restoration.  Pp. 257-261 in Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds, Wigington, P.J., and Beschta, R.L., eds.  Middleburg, VA: American Water Resources Association. 

McIntosh, B.A., Sedell, J.R., Thurow, R.F., Clarke, S.A., and Chandler, G.L., 2000.  Historical changes in pool habitats in the Columbia River Basin.  Ecological Applications 10: 1478-1496.  

Nolan, K.M., and Marron, D.C., 1995.  History, causes and significance of changes in the channel geometry of Redwood Creek, northwestern California, 1936 to 1982.  U.S.Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 1454, p. N1 - N22.  
Focuses on effects of major storms; uses aerial photos 1936-1992.  

Petts, G., Möller, H., and Roux,A.L., eds., 1989.  Historical Change of Large Alluvial Rivers: Western Europe.  New York: Wiley (On reserve)

Pierce, J.L., 2000.  The effects of dredge mining on channel adjustment: Granite Creek, eastern Oregon.  M.A. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Oregon.  

Sedell, J.R., and Froggatt, J.L., 1984.  Importance of streamside forests to large rivers: the isolation of the Willamette River, Oregon, USA from its floodplain.  Verand. Internat. Verein. Theor. und Arge. Limnol. 22.  

Schumm, S.A., and Lichty, R. W., 1963.  Channel widening and floodplain construction along the Cimarron River in southwestern Kansas.  U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 352D.

Surian, N., 1999.  Channel changes due to river regulation: the case of the Piave River, Italy.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24: 1135-1151.  

Van Steeter, M.M., and Pitlick, J., 1999.  Geomorphology and endangered fish habitats of the upper Colorado River, 1. Historical changes in streamflow, sediment load and channel morphology.  Water Resources Research 34: 287-302.  

Wohl, E., 2001.  Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range.  New Haven: Yale University Press.  (On reserve)

 

Methods

Go to page on historical source materials.  

Egan, D., and Howell, E.A., eds., 2001.  The Historical Ecology Handbook, A Restorationist’s Guide to Reference Ecosystems.  Washington DC: Island Press.  (On reserve)

Harper, D., 2001.  Changing Works, Vision of a Lost Agriculture.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
The author uses historical photos to elicit oral histories and document change in agriculture in the northeastern U.S.  He uses early 20th century photos from the Standard Oil of New Jersey photographic archive.  (not at UO Libraries, need to request through Orbis)

Hooke, J.M., 1997.  Styles of channel change.  P. 237-268 in Thorne, C.R., Ney, R.D., and Newson, M.D., eds., Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management.  Chichester Gr. Brit.: Wiley.  

Patrick, D.M., Smith, L.M., and Whitten, C.B., 1982.  Methods for studying accelerated fluvial change.  Pp. 783-812 in Hey, R.D., Bathurst, J.C., and Thorne, C.R., eds., Gravel-bed Rivers.  Chichester Gr. Brit.: Wiley.

Smelser, M.G., and Schmidt, J.A., 1998.  An assessment methodology for determining historical changes in mountain streams.  U.S.D.A. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-6.  

 

River Histories (mainly non-geographical)

Gumprecht, B., 1999.  The Los Angeles River, Its Life, Death and Possible Rebirth.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.  

 

Pacific Northwest Environmental History

Search under county names or other place names in the UO Library catalog.  

Bunting, R. 1997. The Pacific Raincoast, Environment and Culture in an American Eden.  Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press.   

Dicken, S.N., and Dicken, E.F., 1979.  The making of Oregon : a study in historical geography.  Portland OR: Oregon Historical Society.  

LaLande, J., 1995.  An Environmental History of the Little Applegate River Watershed, Jackson County, Oregon.  U.S.D.A. Forest Service Rogue River National Forest.  (Kni Doc-US A13.2: AP5X)

Robbins, W., 1997.  Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940.  Seattle WA: University of Washington Press.  

Wissmar, R.C., et al., 1994.  A history of resource use and disturbance in riverine basins of eastern Oregon and Washington (early 1800s-1990s).  Northwest Science 68: 1-35.  

 

Miscellaneous

Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science, National Research Council, 2002.  The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery.  Washington DC:  National Academies Press.  Available on line at:  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10277.html?se_side 

Gurnell, A., 1995.  Vegetation along river corridors: hydrogeomorphical interactions.  In A. Gurnell and G. Petts. eds., Changing River Channels, p. 237-260.  Chichester, Great Britain: Wiley.  


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