Willamette River Greenways
eBook - ePub

Willamette River Greenways

Navigating the Currents of Conservation Policy and Practice

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Willamette River Greenways

Navigating the Currents of Conservation Policy and Practice

About this book

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 Willamette River for public use and environmental protection. While the Greenway Program fell far short of Straub's original proposal, today it provides for significant riverside lands with a range of public benefits. The Greenway Program also offers a useful lens through which to view the successes and failures of Oregon's environmental protection policies over the past few decades.

Travis Williams, executive director of Willamette Riverkeeper, has spent countless hours paddling the Willamette, becoming familiar with its flora, fauna, and human neighbors. In Willamette River Greenways, he combines personal narrative about his experiences on the river with nuanced consideration of the controversies and challenges of the Greenway Program. Williams sheds light on current land stewardship practices, revealing the institutional and leadership failures that endanger the river's water quality and habitat, and looks to the program's future. He also takes readers with him onto the water, sharing what it's like to travel the river by canoe, paying homage to the river's natural beauty and the host of wildlife species that call it home.

Part policy analysis, part advocacy, and all love letter to one of Oregon's great rivers, Willamette River Greenways offers valuable perspective to policymakers, land use managers, and recreational river users alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The River’s Gift
  9. 2. The Willamette Greenway Program
  10. 3. Blue Ruin
  11. 4. Welcome Solitude
  12. 5. A River Treasure
  13. 6. Norwood Island Outpost
  14. 7. Hidden Beauty
  15. 8. The Three Greens
  16. 9. The Willamette Mission
  17. 10. Assemblages
  18. 11. Challenging Traditions
  19. 12. Fairfields
  20. 13. The Craft
  21. 14. Looking Ahead
  22. Selected Bibliography