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INDEX 387 Abbott, Carl, 301, 304, 320 ABC’s 20/20 News Magazine, 202–3 African Americans, 11, 316 Agee, James, 270 Agent Orange, 195, 202–3 Agricultural Adjustment Administration , 86 Agricultural Bulletin, 79, 95, 98, 134 Agricultural Experiment Station: establishment of, 83; exaggerated claims of, 84; and seed crops, 85– 86; alternatives to field burning, 91–92; experiments with DDT, 118 agricultural literature, 82 agricultural science, 112 agriculture: and gasoline-powered engines, 17; importance to Oregon’s economy, 80, 114, 115; and technological changes, 81–82; progressive practices of, 84; and seed-grass industry, 85–94; importance of weather to, 99; as risky business, 112; and chemicals, 114, 116; herbicides and good stewardship, 125; changes in pesticide policy, 141; threatened by population growth, 285 Agriculture in Oregon, 79 Aldridge, Bill, 246 Allen, Ben, 136 Allen, Dan, 236 Allen, Eric, 180–81, 300 Allen, James, 201 Alsea, 201 Alsea II, 202, 203, 204–5 Alsea women, 201–2 American Association of Economic Entomologists, 126 American Can Company, 33 American Forests, 228 American Guide Series, 15 American Society of Civil Engineers, 50 Anaconda Copper Mining Company, 155 Anderson, Clinton, 230 Anderson, Jack, 200 Anderson, Jean, 196 Anderson, Les, 91 anti-tax Republicans, 322 appliances, 23 Arledge, Roone, 202 Arnold, Barbara, 158 Associated General Contractors, 299 Associated Oregon Industries, 180; and McCall, 288; opposes land-use planning, 291, 299; Straub’s address to, 294–95 Associated Press, 6, 32, 300 Astoria, 4 Astorian Evening Budget, 4 Atiyeh, Victor, 92, 298, 299 Atkison, Ray, 234 Atlantic Monthly, 319 atomic bomb, 4, 12, 21 atomic energy, 22 AuCoin, Les, 205, 206 Audubon Society, 94, 192–93, 276 Averill, Ed, 59, 271 Ballot Measure 5, 321 banded leaf roller, 119 Banks Lake, 48 Barnaby, J. T., 57 Barry, Don, 109 Bateman, Cornelius, 287 Battele Research Center, 203 Bauer, Malcolm, 228, 230 Baughman, Robert, 198 Beaver Marsh Project, 232–37 Beckham, Dow, 9 bees, 124 Bell, Milo, 55 Bell, Nina, 275, 276 Bend, 237; shortage of housing in, 32; railroad completed to, 156; dependent on forest bounty, 158; soaring timber production in, 159, 161; signs of change, 165 Bend Bulletin, 32, 159, 160, 162, 165, 228; praises North Unit project, 38– 39; praises fire-prevention work, 158; and Brooks-Scanlon, 161, 163; touts benefits of access roads in national forest, 164 Bigley, Michael, 165 388 Index Bionetics Research Laboratory, 195 Bischoff, Jerome, 241 Bishop, F. C., 121 Bjorklund, N. E., 200–201 black bear, 96 Black Butte, 237 Black Butte Ranch, 299 “Black Tuesday,” 91 Blevins, Matt, 279 blind-seed disease (gleotinia), 88 Block, Ivan, 42–43 Blue Mountains, 191–92, 193–94, 322 Blue Mountain Weather Research Association, 100 Blue River, 234 Blumm, Michael, 327 Boag, Peter, 93 Boe, Jason, 186 Boeing Company, 4, 7, 10 Bohemia Lumber Company, 322 Boise Cascade Corporation, 193, 268– 69, 299 Bonneville Dam, 10, 27, 50, 57, 69, 247, 260, 316; fish ladders of, 48; high mortality rates of smolts, 62, 74; contributions to airplane production , 226–27 Bonneville Power Administration: promotes use of electricity, 46; as power distributor, 50; benefits Portland business community, 52; promotes water development projects, 71; markets power to California , 76; planning in Columbia Basin, 147; barging smolts past dams, 327 “Bottle Bill,” 295 Bovett, Rob, 312 Bowles, Rollin, 233, 234, 241, 242 Bowman, Isaiah, 100 Brenne, Fred, 232 Brenner, Richard, 306 Brewer, James, 8 Brewer, Karla, 8 Brogan, Denis, 15 Brogan, Phil, 165 Brooks Resources Incorporated, 298 Brooks-Scanlon, 32, 158, 161, 162, 164; opens mill in Bend, 156; logging in vicinity of Black Butte, 159; cutting lodgepole pine near Camp Abbot, 163; modernizes mill facility, 165 Brower, David, 222 Brownlee Dam (1958), 223 Buck, C. J., 148 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 121 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 191 Burnett, Andrea, 211 Burt, Gordon, 262 Bush, George H. W., 209 Bush, Vannevar, Science: The Endless Frontier, 22–23 business community, 40, 41 California: promise of markets in, xviii; following WWII, 17, 34; homebuilding market, 33; agribusiness in, 60; and booming construction industry, 175; surpasses Oregon’s population growth, 285; refugees from, 321 California Reconstruction and Reemployment Commission, 28 Calkins, Windsor, 233 Callenbach, Ernest, Ecotopia, 297 Index 389 Camp Abbot, 163 Camp Adair, 8 Campbell, Charles, 246 Canada, 69 Cannon, Kessler, 271 Carlson, Gus, 63 Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 25, 115, 125, 188. See also Silent Spring Cascade Mountains, 320 Cascades Lock and Canal, 42 Caterpillar tractors, 164 Cathlamet, Washington, 260 Catholic bishops pastoral letter, 328–29 Caufield, Catherine, 205 C...

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