Oregon State University Press
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Forest Park: Exploring Portland’s Natural Sanctuary
$22.95 Add to cartSituated in the rugged hills west of downtown Portland, Forest Park is the nation’s premier urban natural sanctuary. It supports essential habitat for hundreds of native plants and animals, including
- Author: Houle, Marcy Cottrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712225
- Language: English
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Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War Into the Progressive Era
$39.95 Add to cartFollowing the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock
- Author: Willingham, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645479
- Language: English
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Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a Us Senator
$29.95 Add to cartRichard L. Neuberger is a consequential but often forgotten figure in Oregon history, largely due to his early death at forty-seven, near the end of his only term in the United States Senate. But his
- Author: Forrester, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645428
- Language: English
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Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest
$34.95 Add to cart“In geology, the present is the key to the past. And the past is also a touchstone of the future. We would do well to heed the stories the stones have to tell.” –from the Introduction
Updated throu
- Author: Bishop, Ellen Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645401
- Language: English
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Goats in America: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartThe humble goat has played a surprising and important role throughout the history of the United States. Despite this, goats are often overlooked by many Americans, even if they have strong opinions ab… [more below]
- Author: Parr, Tami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645452
- Language: English
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Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana
$50.00 Add to cart“The essential purpose of Saving the Big Sky is to inspire the reader to help conserve even more of Montana,” write Bruce Bugbee, Robert Kiesling, and John Wright in this compelling study of how six
- Author: Bugbee, Bruce A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645363
- Language: English
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Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs
$24.95 Add to cartThe fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia’s Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington’s life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked–char
- Author: Barrington, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645223
- Language: English
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I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War
$29.95 Add to cartAs Americans increasingly question how each of us fits into our nation’s cultural tapestry, I Lived to Tell the World presents thirteen inspiring profiles of refugees who have settled in Oregon. They
- Author: Mehren, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 196264507X
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington
$45.00 Add to cartAs the comprehensive reference for 394 species, subspecies, and varieties of grasses, Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington has become the definitive identification resource for amateur
- Author: Roché, Cindy Talbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645266
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians
$22.95 Read moreMyrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source of food. The roasted nuts taste like bitter chocolat… [more below]
- Author: Whereat-Phillips, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2016
- ISBN10: 870718525
- Language: English
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Ellie’s Log: Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of 2013 John Burroughs Association Riverby Award Honorable Mention
After a huge tree crashes to the ground during a winter storm, ten-year-old Ellie and her new friend, Ricky, explore the fore- Author: Li, Judith L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0870716964
- Language: English
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Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
$39.95 Add to cartWith more than fifty contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indi
- Author: Jacobs, Lara A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645320
- Language: English
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River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin
$29.95 Add to cartRiver of Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Klamath Basin, a region of the Pacific Northwest spanning the Oregon-California border. Indian reservations are at the headwaters, along the estuary,… [more below]
- Author: Most, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645185
- Language: English
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates
$50.00 Add to cartWild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates tells the story of the long-distance migrations that elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, bison, and mountain goats make each spring and fall … [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0870719432
- Language: English
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast
$22.95 Read moreThere are five layers of the ocean, though most of us will only ever see one. The deepest layer is the midnight zone, where the only light comes from bioluminescence, created by animals who live there… [more below]
- Author: Emerick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0870710796
- Language: English
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Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers
$18.95 Read moreEarth’s weary lovers are tired, perplexed, and battered from all directions. Their hearts have so often been broken. It’s hard to go on, but it is morally impossible to quit. How do Earth’s protectors… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711776
- Language: English
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Astoria: An Oregon History
$19.95 Read moreBefore Seattle, before Portland, there was Astoria.
The rest of the country is just beginning to discover Astoria, Oregon, that historic gem of a town at the mouth of the Columbia River west of Portl- Author: Leedom, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711660
- Language: English
