Protest City
In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Portland made national news with nightly social justice protests, often met with violent response by...
The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan
Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and...
Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary
In this companion volume to Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of planning Portland’s...
Willamette River Greenways
The Willamette River Greenway Program, first proposed in 1966 by future Oregon governor Bob Straub, envisioned a nearly two-hundred-mile assemblage of public lands along the...
A Voice for Justice
As an educator, speaker, deputy attorney general, and judge, David Schuman was known for his ability to clarify difficult legal concepts. According to James Egan...
Bearing Witness
Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in...
The Environmental Politics & Policy of Western Public Lands
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and often contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a...
Facing the World
Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the United States. Even the major cities of...