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 Primer for Computational Biology
- Publication year: 2017
Undercurrents
From Oceanographer to University President
- Publication year: 2018
Speaking for the River
Confronting Pollution on the Willamette, 1920s-1970s
- Publication year: 2018
Homing Instincts
Homing Instincts is a collection of personal essays that explores the ways we define “home” at different stages of our lives. Based on pivotal moments in the author’s life in New York City and Oregon, Homing Instincts bridges the gap between where we are and the stories we tell ourselves about where we think we belong.
- Publication year: 2018
Penguins in the Desert
- Publication year: 2018
Kaiaulu
Gathering Tides
- Publication year: 2018
All Coyote's Children
- Publication year: 2018
The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett
Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California
- Publication year: 2018
Beginner's Luck
Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains
- Publication year: 2018
Words Marked by a Place
Local Histories in Central Oregon
- Publication year: 2018
Beyond the Rebel Girl
Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924
- Publication year: 2018
Sagebrush Collaboration
How Harney County Defeated the Takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge
- Publication year: 2018
A Deadly Wind
The 1962 Columbus Day Storm
- Publication year: 2018
Ellie's Strand
Exploring the Edge of the Pacific
- Publication year: 2018
Grit and Ink
An Oregon Family’s Adventures in Newspapering, 1908–2018
- Publication year: 2018
Wild Migrations
Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates
- Publication year: 2018
Salmon is Everything
Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed
- Publication year: 2018
Giving Back
Research and Reciprocity in Indigenous Settings
- Publication year: 2018
Governing Oregon
Continuity and Change
- Publication year: 2018
The Eclipse I Call Father
Essays on Absence
- Publication year: 2019
Same River Twice
The Politics of Dam Removal and River Restoration
- Publication year: 2019
Edge of Awe
Experiences of the Malheur-Steens Country
- Publication year: 2019
Northwest Voices
Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest
- Publication year: 2019
The Red Coast
Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
- Publication year: 2019
Interviewing
The Oregon Method
- Publication year: 2019
Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington
- Publication year: 2019
Ricky in the City
Where the Wildlife Live
- Publication year: 2019
Sporting Oregon
A Pictorial History of Early Oregon Sports
- Publication year: 2019
Catch and Release
An Oregon Life in Politics
- Publication year: 2019
The Mountains of Paris
How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life
- Publication year: 2019
Persistent Callings
Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast
- Publication year: 2019
Collegiate Architecture and Landscape in the West
Willamette University, 1842-2012
In the story of how campus architecture evolved in the nation, and in microcosm at Willamette University specifically, we see a rich reflection of our society and of education in general. We see how the building of a campus not only reflects the educational aims and culture of a period, but also impacts the future educational missions of an institution. From the wood-framed Oregon Institute through the creation of the LEED Gold Certified Ford Hall, the captivating details behind the formation of today’s beautiful campus show how intricately the physical plant is intertwined with the work, the institutional mission, the finances, and the individuals who shaped the progress of the University.
While there is plenty to satisfy those with an architectural bent, there is much here for the general reader as well. Generations of people come to life, people from whom we are separated not only by time, but by “the times.” And yet, in their humanity and deep commitment, we can catch glimpses of who we are today. Willamette University literally inhabits the visions of those who came before. We also see that in a very real way, the challenges, disappointments, and triumphs of people who no longer walk these grounds are built into the Willamette physical plant. Once one has been through this journey, the reader will never look at the built environment of Willamette, or of any campus, in the same way again.
- Publication year: 2019
Listening at Lookout Creek
Nature in Spiritual Practice
- Publication year: 2019
A Generous Nature
Lives Transformed by Oregon
- Publication year: 2019
The Other Oregon
People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades
- Publication year: 2019
Black Woman in Green
Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership
An urban African American woman rises from secretary to leader in the USDA Forest Service of the twentieth century West. Along the way, she faces personal and agency challenges to become the first black female forest supervisor in the United States.
- Publication year: 2020
Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington
For 70 years, people have turned to one book to learn about Northwest trees: Trees to Know in Oregon. This new edition, retitled Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington, expands its scope to cover more territory and include more trees.
The book was first published in 1950. Charles R. Ross, an Oregon State University Extension forester, wanted to introduce readers to the towering giants in their backyards. Since then, Edward C. Jensen has stewarded the publication through several more editions. This edition features several rare species native to southwest Oregon. It also updates scientific names and adds a new section on how Northwest forests are likely to be affected by changing climates.
Since its initial publication, Trees to Know has become a mainstay for students, gardeners, small woodland owners and visitors to the Pacific Northwest. Along with all the details on native conifers, broadleaves, and more than 50 ornamental trees, readers will find:
- More than 400 full-color photos and 70 maps depicting habitat, range and forest type.
- Easy-to-follow identification keys.
- Handy guides to help distinguish one variety from another.
- The story of Northwest forests — past, present and future.
- Publication year: 2021
Facing the World
Defense Spending and International Trade in the Pacific Northwest Since World War II
An examination of select federal and state-level politicians in the Pacific Northwest in the post-World War II era, "Facing the World" contends that individuals, including Henry Jackson, Tom Foley, Mark Hatfield, and Vic Atiyeh, working with local partners, secured the economic expansion of the Pacific Northwest through greater global outreach and embrace of the federal national security doctrine that took hold during the Cold War.
- Publication year: 2020
The Collected Poems of Ada Hastings Hedges
Ada Hastings Hedges was one of Oregon’s foremost poets of the mid-twentieth century. This book brings together her known poems, including a complete annotated reprint of her famous “Desert Poems” of 1930.
- Publication year: 2020
Collected Poems of Hazel Hall, The
During the short span of her career, Hazel Hall became one of the West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce, crystalline verse was frequently compared with that of Emily Dickinson. Confined to a wheelchair since childhood, Hall's writings convey the dark undertones of the lives of working women in the early twentieth century, while bringing into focus her own private, reclusive life—her limited mobility, her isolation and loneliness, and her gifts with needlework and words.
- Publication year: 2020
Abalone
The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish
Explores the natural history of the abalone and its imperiled future, focusing on a mix of issues, from the simple and expected (over-harvesting) to the more complex (fundamental scientific misunderstandings).
- Publication year: 2020
Struggle on the North Santiam
Power and Community on the Margins of the American West
A history or Oregon's North Santiam Canyon, from interaction between Native and non-Native peoples and railroad development and land fraud in the nineteenth century, to changing fortunes in the timber industry and questions about economic and environmental sustainability into the twenty-first century.
- Publication year: 2020
A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder
The Andrews Forest
The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest is a slice of classic Oregon: due east of Eugene in the Cascade Mountains, it comprises 15,800 acres of the Lookout Creek watershed. The landscape is steep, with hills and deep valleys and cold, fast-running streams. The densely forested landscape includes cedar, hemlock, and moss-draped Douglas fir trees. One of eighty-one USDA experimental forests, the Andrews is administered cooperatively by the US Forest Service, OSU, and the Willamette National Forest. While many Oregonians may think of the Andrews simply as a good place to hike, research on the forest has been internationally acclaimed, has influenced Forest management, and contributed to our understanding of healthy forests.
In A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder, historian William Robbins turns his attention to the long-overlooked Andrews Forest and argues for its importance to environmental science and policy. From its founding in 1948, the experimental forest has been the site of wide-ranging research. Beginning with postwar studies on the conversion of old-growth timber to fast-growing young stands, research at the Andrews shifted in the next few decades to long-term ecosystem investigations that focus on climate, streamflow, water quality, vegetation succession, biogeochemical cycling, and effects of forest management. The Andrews has thus been at the center of a dramatic shift in federal timber practices from industrial, intensive forest management policies to strategies emphasizing biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.
- Publication year: 2020
Never Leaving Laramie
Travels in a Restless World
- Publication year: 2020
The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands
Editors Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to consider long-standing issues and topics such as endangered species, land use, and water management while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, climate change, and land use rebellions.
- Publication year: 2020
Clifford Gleason
The Promise of Paint
Clifford Gleason: The Promise of Paint serves as both an introduction and a definitive study of an “artist’s artist,” who until now has not received the sustained attention that he and his work are due. It traces his career from the 1930s until the last months of his difficult life—difficult because of alcoholism, near poverty, and homosexuality in a repressive era. In paint, Gleason found the only realm in which he felt competent, confident, and successful; paint offered the promise of accomplishment. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, this richly illustrated monograph examines Gleason’s identity as a modern artist as he responded to the rapid changes in artistic modernism from the late 1930s, when he studied with Louis Bunce at the Salem Federal Art Center, to the 1970s, when he rethought the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in works that are unique to him, visually beautiful and poetically expressive.
- Publication year: 2020
Storm Beat
A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast
- Publication year: 2020