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Interview With Ed Mays, Endura Wood Products, 2006 (Audio), Ed Mays

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Interview of Ed Mays by Damon Quint in Portland, Oregon on August 11th, 2006.

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Interview With Adam Olsen, Parr Lumber, 2006 (Audio), Adam Olsen

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Born in Portland, Adam Olsen worked for Parr Lumber for ten years as a contractor salesman.

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Changes In Riparian Vegetation Buffers In Response To Development In Three Oregon Cities, J. Alan Yeakley, Connie P. Ozawa, A. M. Hook

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Riparian vegetation buffer loss was investigated for three cities with contrasting local regulatory controls in urbanizing northwest Oregon. The cities examined were Hillsboro, Oregon City and Portland, all having experienced high rates of population increase in the 1990s. All cities are covered under Oregon’s land use law that provides goals for the protection of open space and natural resources. On the municipality level, regulatory controls in Portland included a system of environmental zoning for riparian area protection, while regulatory controls on development in riparian areas in Hillsboro and Oregon City were less stringent. Digital aerial photographs covering buffer areas within …