Oregon State University Press
For fifty years, Oregon State University Press has been publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest—its people and landscapes, its flora and fauna, its history and cultural heritage. The Press has played a vital role in the region’s literary life, providing readers with a better understanding of what it means to be an Oregonian. Today, Oregon State University Press publishes distinguished books in several academic areas from environmental history and natural resource management to indigenous studies.
A Deeper Sense of Place
Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research
Bridging a Great Divide
The Battle for the Columbia River Gorge
Accomplishing NAGPRA
Perspectives on the Intent, Impact, and Future of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food
Perspectives on Eating from the Past and a Preliminary Agenda for the Future
Salmon, People, and Place
A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery
Here on the Edge
How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream
Pacific Northwest Cheese
A History
Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue
Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation
California Condors in the Pacific Northwest
Ava Helen Pauling
Partner, Activist, Visionary
Ellie's Log
Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest
Escaping into Nature
The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian
Walking Distance
Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People
The Columbia River Treaty Revisited
Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty
Voyage of a Summer Sun
Canoeing the Columbia River
The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
Voices and Images from Sherman Institute
Oregon Geology
Standing at the Water's Edge
Bob Straub's Battle for the Soul of Oregon
Multnomah
The Tumultuous Story of Oregon's Most Populous County
Comrades of the Quest
An Oral History of Reed College
Asserting Native Resilience
Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis
To the Promised Land
A History of Government and Politics in Oregon
Wild Delicate Seconds
29 Wildlife Encounters
Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau
The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer
Wet Engine
Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
Public Lands, Public Debates
A Century of Controversy
Nineteen essays from an environmental historian that explore the U.S. system of public lands, the subject of historical struggle and contemporary debate.
Oregon Plans
The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution
Finding the River
An Environmental History of the Elwha
Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600
Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
The first book to present the life histories of the entire butterfly fauna of a North American geographic region.
Wading for Bugs
Exploring Streams with the Experts
Field stories from aquatic biologists that reveal what it’s like to study stream insects and to make discoveries that could help stream health and conservation.
Wild in the City
Exploring the Intertwine: The Portland-Vancouver Region's Network of Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas
Portland in Three Centuries
The Place and the People
A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon’s largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders appear, but Carl Abbott also highlights workers and immigrants, union members and dissenters, women at work and in the public realm, artists and activists, and other movers and shakers.
Incorporating social history and contemporary scholarship in his narrative, Abbott examines current metropolitan character and issues, giving close attention to historical background. He explores the context of opportunities and problems that have helped to shape the rich mosaic that is Portland.
This revised and updated second edition includes greater attention to the Indigenous peoples of the Portland region, Portland’s communities of color, and the challenges of recent years that have thrust Portland into the national spotlight.
A highly readable character study of a city, and enhanced by more than sixty historic and contemporary images, Portland in Three Centuries will appeal to readers interested in Portland, in Oregon, and in Pacific Northwest history.
Toward One Oregon
Rural-Urban Interdependence and the Evolution of a State
Pathfinder
Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America
Pacific Northwest Trail founder Ron Strickland shares his stories about and from the trail.
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon
A Field Guide
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