The 25-minute feature video and four featurettes on this DVD provide an overview of the issues associated with beachfront erosion and building on or buying property on the Oregon coast. "Living on the Edge" is intended for developers, real estate agents, lenders and coastal officials as well as builders, buyers and homeowners. The DVD:
Two short videos on this DVD focus attention on the risks and responses to a tsunami hitting the Oregon coast.
While the occurrence of such "monster waves" is currently impossible to predict, planning is possible and prudent, and Oregon Sea Grant is concentrating research and community education to help coastal citizens and communities prepare.
This award-winning, five-part documentary examines how residents, officials and scientists in Maine are anticipating and planning for sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion expected to accompany climate change.
Climate change carries with it both risk and uncertainty, which makes it a challenge to discuss and an even greater challenge to prepare for. Oregon Sea Grant has joined the climate conversation by listening to coastal residents and trying to address their most pressing questions, with the assistance of topical experts.
Salmon trolling is a hook-and-line commercial fishery that for almost a century has supported ocean communities from Alaska to California. From its beginnings, trolling attracted men (and later women) who loved their independence and weren't afraid of hard work.
Pacific Northwest estuaries range from large (Washington's Grays Harbor, 58,000 acres) to small (Oregon's Twomile Creek, 20 acres); from rural (Big Creek estuary in Lincoln County, Oregon) to urban (Puget Sound, in Washington, supporting a population of 3.9 million); and from pristine to seriously degraded.
Commercial fisheries on the West Coast continue to face considerable change. After expanding rapidly in the late 1970s and '80s, in the late '90s many sectors of the industry experienced resource scarcity and decline—especially groundfish. On January 26, 2000, U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary William Daley declared the West Coast groundfish fishery an economic disaster.
