Geog 607: Seminar
Reshaping the Grande Ronde River: Natural and Social Processes

Winter 2004 -- University of Oregon
Prof. Pat McDowell


Sources


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This is just a start, we'll add more as we find them!

Important secondary sources for information on the Grande Ronde watershed:

Gildemeister, J., 1998.  Watershed history : middle & upper Grande Ronde River subbasins of Northeast Oregon.  La Grande, Or. : J. Gildemeister. 
OR COLL   QH105.O7 G55 1998; also one copy available in 108 Condon.

Hug, B. D., 1961.  History of Union County, Oregon.  La Grande, Or., Eastern Oregon Review. 
OR COLL F882.U5 H8

Beckham, S.D., 1991.  The Grande Ronde Valley and Blue Mountains: Impressions and Experiences of Travelers and Emigrants, The Oregon Trail, 1812-1880.  "Report submitted to Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, La Grande Ranger District, La Grande, OR.”   Lake Oswego, Or.: Beckham and Associates.  
OR COLL  F882.G65 B425 1991. 

Duncan, Angus, 1998.  History, science, the law, and watershed recovery in the Grande Ronde : a case study.  Corvallis, Or.: Oregon Sea Grant. 
On reserve in Knight Library.  LAW LIB. QH541.5.V3 D861 1998.

Loy, W.G. et al., 2001.  Atlas of Oregon, 2nd ed.  Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press. 
KNI REF, MAP G1490 .L63 2001. 

 

Web links for Oregon environmental history research:

http://www.oregon.gov/  Oregon state government

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/default.htm  Oregon State Archives

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cphome.html   Oregon Historical County Records Guide (from the State Archives)

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cpunionhome.html  Union County history in the Oregon Historical County Records Guide

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/state/planbd/planhome.htm   List of Oregon State Planning Board records in the State Archive.  Mainly 1935-1939, but some records go back to 1860. 

http://www.wrd.state.or.us/   Oregon Department of Water Resources
http://www.wrd.state.or.us/maps/index.shtml  on-line water rights maps

http://www.gis.state.or.us/data/ormap/statemap.htm:  on-line tax assessor maps (pdf); modern (i.e., 1990s), but they show property boundaries along river.  

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/  University of Oregon Library Map and Aerial Photography Collection. 
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/GIS/Data/Oregon/glo_home.htm  digital GLO township maps
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/map.html  link to digital Sanborn maps on this page

http://www.ohs.org/  Oregon Historical Society, Portland.

http://www.union-county.org/  Union County, OR web page; see the history section.

 

Primary sources for information on the Grande Ronde watershed:

Oregon Water Resources Department, 1960.  Grande Ronde River Basin [Report].  Location? (listed in Oregon State Archives Water Resources Department Record Guide, http://www.sos.state.or.us/archives/state/water/series/pub.htm, accessed 1/7/04). 

Oregon Water Resources Department, 1969.  Oregon's Long-Range Requirements for Water.  Location?  (listed in Oregon State Archives Water Resources Department Record Guide, http://www.sos.state.or.us/archives/state/water/series/pub.htm, accessed 1/7/04). 

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/state/water/append.htm  Water districts, 1980:  document on State archives web page, http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/state/water/append.htm, accessed 12/17/03

The Oregonian (formerly The Portland Oregonian), the largest newspaper of the state and the best oen for statewide news stories.  On-line access to news stories back to 1984 is available to members of the UO community through the UO Library.  Go to the Library web page and under “What are you looking for?,” select Newspapers. 

The La Grande Observer, daily newspaper published since 1896, available on microfilm 1930-2000 at the UO Library.  Other historical Union County newspapers are in the UO Library collection; see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/newspapers/

 

 


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