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The following products have primarily been made by, or in collaboration with, Bob Zybach, during the course of his career as a reforestation contractor, scientist, writer, educator, and photographer. They are made available without charge as a service to those with an interest in Pacific Northwest forests, people, history, and wildlife.

Dr. Zybach was co-founder and President of Phoenix Reforestation, Inc. from 1972 until 1992, founder and President of NW Maps Co. since 1993, and Program Manager of Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc., (ORWW) since its beginning in 1996. His online Curriculum Vitae provides a summary of his written work and rcordings during those years..

NOTE: Several of the maps, drawings, and photographic reproductions included in this collection date to original records created in the late 1700s and early 1800s, original land surveys and maps dating from the mid-1800s, and photographs beginning shortly thereafter. Scales and reproductive quality often vary significantly from the original documents and publications: some of this result has been purposeful, to draw attention to detail, and other has been a direct result of preparing digital files for display on a computer screen over the course of many years, with many types of software of greatly varying quality standards. The majority of these files are digitized reproductions of Dr. Zybach's articles, maps, editorials, reports, photographs, and other products first published as early as 1982 (some of his earlier work, dating to the mid-1960s, can be found at a2b-Graphics.com). None of these files were digitized in their present formats before 1996 -- however, sufficient care has always been taken that these reproductions can be be reliably cited and further reproduced for purposes of education and research.

Aerial Photographs (JPEG). Mostly western Oregon from 1939 until 2005. Most of these selections were assembled as ORWW student reports from Bob Zybach and NW Maps Co. collections. The indexed 1939 aerial coverage of the entire Siletz River basin in Lincoln County, Oregon, for example, has been continuously online since it was put there by an Eddyville HS senior in 1997. Other aerials have been digitized from prints in the OSU Valley and UO Knight library collections.

Articles (HTML, WORD, and PDF). Select articles written from 1982 until 2006 that generally focus on forest, Indian, fire, and/or reforestation histories of the Pacific Northwest.

Books (HTML, JPEG and PDF). Several drafts reaching final revisions. They will be placed online as they are published; probably beginning sometime in 2007 or 2008. Major portions of these books are derived from the articles, editorials, monographs, reports, and theses already linked to this page.

Editorials (HTML and JPEG)

MAIS Thesis (11.8 mb. PDF). Uses oral history research methodology to document the forest and human history of Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon, from 1500 to 1999.

PhD Dissertation (HTML and JPEG). Uses archival research methods and GIS to compare Indian burning patterns of 1491 to 1848 with subsequent "Great Fire" patterns of

Maps (HTML and JPEG)

Monographs

Photographs (JPEG)

Presentations (PowerPoint and WORD)

Reports (HTML and WORD)

Video Clips (MPEG)

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