The following represents the Required Readings for the 2008 course. Please check back occasionally for updates.
Required Readings
Read before class begins | Read before Philomath | Read before Warm Springs | Read before Wallowa Co.
In order to better understand the issues we’ll be exploring, you’ll need to be familiar with several foundational concepts drawn primarily from the literature on land tenure, rural sociology, community forestry, and rural development. In the weeks prior to class, a class reader will be made available in the Forest Ecosystems and Society Office, Third Floor Richardson Hall, for you to borrow and copy.
It is strongly recommended that you get a head start on the readings before the first day of class. Note that this reading list is likely to evolve right up until class begins. For a Adobe pdf document of the class readings, click here. For a schedule of dates, see the class itinerary.
Read before class begins:
Duncan, Cynthia M. 1996. Understanding persistent poverty: Social class context in rural communities. Rural Sociology 61(1)103 – 124.
Geisler, Charles. 2000. Property Pluralism. Chapter 4 in Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker, eds, Property and Values: Alternatives to public and private ownership. WA DC: Island Press. 299 p.
Robbins, William G. 2000. In search of Western lands. Pp. 3-20 in William G. Robbins and James C. Foster, eds, Land in the American West: Private claims and the common good. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Stauber, Karl N. 2001. Why Invest in Rural America - And How? A Critical Public Policy Question for the 21st Century. Paper presented at Exploring Policy Options for a New Rural America, Center for the Study of Rural America, April 30-May 1.
Read before Philomath:
Bliss, John C., E.C. Kelly, J. Abrams, and C. Bailey. 2008. Disintegration of the Industrial Forest Estate and the Future of Small-scale Forestry in the United States. In Small-scale Rural Forest Use and Management: Global Policies versus Local Knowledge, Proceedings, IUFRO International Symposium, Gerardmer, France, 23-27 June 2008.
Chaskin, R., Brown, P., Venkatesh, S. & Vidal, A. 2001. Building community capacity. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter. Chapter 1 (pp. 7-26).
MacTavish, Kate, and Sonya Salamon. 2003. What do rural families look like today? P. 73 – 86 in D.L. Brown and L.E. Swanson, eds., Challenges for rural America in the twenty-first century. University Park PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Robbins, William G. 2005. From natural resources to a new economy. Chapter 9, and Epilogue, Oregon: This storied land. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press.
Salamon, S. 2003. From hometown to nontown: rural community effects of suburbanization. Rural Sociology 68: 1-24.
Read before Warm Springs:
Aguilar, George W. Sr. 2005. River People. Chapter 1 in, When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. Portland:Oregon Historical Society Press. 252 p.
Beckham, Stephen Dow. 2007. Federal-Indian relations. Chapter 11 in Laura Berg, ed., The First Oregonians. Corvallis:OSU Press. 348 p.
Confederated Tribes of Warm Spring Website, Tribal Community pages: http://www.warmsprings.com/warmsprings/Tribal_Community/
Indian Forest Management Assessment Team for the Intertribal Timber Council. 1993. An assessment of Indian forests and forest management in the United States. Executive Summary. 21 p.
Robbins, William G. 1997. The Native Ecological Context. Pp. 23 – 49 in Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800 – 1940. University of Washington Press. 392 p.
Read before Wallowa County:
Christoffersen, Nils. 2005. Wallowa Resources: Gaining access and adding value to natural resources on public lands. Chapter 6 in West Lyman, Martha, and Brian Child, editors, 2005. Natural resources as community assets: Lessons from two continents. Sand County Foundation. http://www.sandcounty.net/
Donaldson, Gordon A. 1986. Do you need to leave home to grow up? The rural adolescent’s dilemma. Research in rural education 3(3):121-125.
Wallowa County Economic Action Team. 2007. Rural Development Assistance Team Report. 49 pp.
White, Richard. Contested Terrain: The business of land in the American West. P. 190 – 206. In Robbins, W.G. and J.C. Foster, Eds., Land in the American West: Private claims and the common good. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Yung, Laurie and Belsky, Jill M. (2007) Private Property Rights and Community Goods: Negotiating Landowner Cooperation Amid Changing Ownership on the Rocky Mountain Front. Society & Natural Resources 20(8):689 – 703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920701216586