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.

Willamette River Greenways: Navigating the Currents of Conservation Policy and Practice

Business & Money

Williams, Travis

Economics

Oregon State University Press

The Willamette River flows for nearly 200 miles, through deep forests, green valleys, and past cities—Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Newberg, Oregon City, and Portland. Yet it is a river hiding in plain sight: until now, there has been no comprehensive guide to the Willamette. Following the river downstream from its tributaries through its vast valleys and to the tidal flats beyond Portland, The Willamette River Field Guide is the story of Oregon's earliest inhabitants, the connection between the river and the towns along its banks, the wildlife it supports, and the effects of alterations to its geography and ecology. Includes tips for more than a dozen riverside visits and trips. Twelve maps cover each segment of the river. Beautiful new color photographs and rare historical photos help tell the story. Travis Williams knows the river intimately and cares about it passionately. Whether you take in the views from land or water, or just dip into this fascinating guide from home, after reading this book you will know the Willamette River as you never have before.

The Willamette River Field Guide

History

Americas

Timber Press

Bi-Polar Poetry: Erasing My Demons

The book Bipolar Poetry : Erasing My Demons is a collection of a struggling young man's thoughts captured in intense rhymes. The words that the author found at both the highest and lowest points of his mental illness truly bring to light the inconsistent, ever changing realities that define the bipolar mind. The writer entangles the feelings of loss, love, faith, anger and doubt together in such a way that leaves you questioning good and evil, and the true clarity of either. Throughout the book the poems and prayers outline the writer's journey into the dark searching for light. Bipolar, or Manic Depressant, young adults are diagnosed more and more in the 21st century, and some extreme accounts of this irrational behavior have even resulted in violent disasters plaguing local and national television. Although the author of this book has never really violently hurt anyone, his rhymes emphasize some of the irrational thoughts that in some less fortunate cases to often result in these sometimes deadly tragedies. The author expressed the reasoning behind this book was to help people better comprehend the inconsistent thought patterns, and inner battles that so many with a mental illness face day in a day out. He also stated that even at his lowest he could never comprehend how some could use mental illness to excuse rape or murder, and he praised God he couldn't.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Xlibris

STAGE FRIGHTS Vol. 1: A Collection of Horror Plays

Cook, Jonathan

Baughfman, Evan

Kaminski, Ryan

Mandryk, Greg

Philbin, Leah

Brannon, Mike

Bavoso, John

Priskorn, Jacquelyn

Dramas & Plays

Ghost Light Publications

Uly Quits His Job

Pro tip: Don't quit your job when the boss is your ride. Uly moves from Atlanta to south Georgia to take a new job doing honest work maintaining utility poles. Rachel is done with him. She rejects his on-again, off-again attempts to maintain a long-distance relationship. Uly is assigned to a crew that travels to Savannah. On the job, hard work isn't the problem, but when Uly stomps off in a huff, you know it's the boss's fault. Jobless, on foot, phone dying, a few dollars from penniless, and suffering in the hot summer heat, Uly buys a ticket for an off-brand bus to Atlanta. That's when things go from bad to strange. Uly takes a long detour on a journey of personal discovery and spiritual growth. Faith, perseverance, loyalty, and generosity wrestle with fear, injury, humiliation, and Uly's own cluelessness in this Christian-themed, Southern odyssey.

United States

Paul Travis Williams

Pro tip: Don't quit your job when the boss is your ride. 
Uly moves from Atlanta to south Georgia to take a new job doing honest work maintaining utility poles. 
Rachel is done with him. She rejects his on-again, off-again attempts to maintain a long-distance relationship. 
Uly is assigned to a crew that travels to Savannah. On the job, hard work isn't the problem, but when Uly stomps off in a huff, you know it's the boss's fault. 
Jobless, on foot, phone dying, a few dollars from penniless, and suffering in the hot summer heat, Uly buys a ticket for an off-brand bus to Atlanta. 
That's when things go from bad to strange. 
Uly takes a long detour on a journey of personal discovery and spiritual growth. 
Faith, perseverance, loyalty, and generosity wrestle with fear, injury, humiliation, and Uly's own cluelessness in this Christian-themed, Southern odyssey.

Trabulation: The Hood Bible

Biographies & Memoirs

Independently published

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