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An annotated list is presented describing sixteen periodicals that cover significant aspects of the Pacific Coast states and their culture in whole or in part. The titles included are a selective and representative sampling. The entry for each periodical includes the following information: periodical title, publisher/editor and address, basic information, publication data, content, Internet information and an abstract/annotation.

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) is the centerpiece of the US efforts to reduce carbon emissions, introducing regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants for the first time on a national basis. These regulations may interact with existing initiatives, for example, in California, where the state has a comprehensive economy-wide cap with emissions allowance trading in place. In addition, three Pacific coast states and British Columbia have supported the idea of comprehensive pricing. This paper provides a summary of a workshop that examined the interaction of these policy approaches. A main observation in the workshop was that the forthcoming CPP will likely facilitate and complicate the prospect of comprehensive carbon pricing. Multistate coordination in complying with the CPP could be key to making simultaneous progress on both the national and regional policy efforts and could provide a pathway from regulation to carbon pricing.

The experience of the three Pacific Coast states provides ample lessons on the strategies that need to be adopted to survive opposition from those motivated by “NIMBY,” environmental values, and opportunism.

Pears are the second most important deciduous fruit produced by U.S. farmers. They are particularly important in the Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington, which have increased their share of total U.S. production in the last quarter century from 89.3% in 1949-51 to 94.5% in 1975-77. About half of all pears are shipped fresh to distant markets, while the remainder are canned or dried so that pear production is of concern to fruit packing, freight and distribution firms throughout the United States, and to processing firms in scattered localities throughout the Pacific Coast states.

Blister rust control, as is well known, consists of the destruction of the alternate hosts, currant and gooseberry plants (Ribes spp.), in and near stands of susceptible five-needle or white pines. The ribes population must be reduced to a very small figure in order to accomplish the protection of the pine. Making sure, either before or after eradication, that the ribes in a stand are so few as not to menace the pine involves systematically checking the stand and its environs. The checking procedure used in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States is described by Harris ('41). The checkers are usually required to cover either 4 per cent or 5 per cent of the land area under examination and to report the number and location of the ribes discovered. Considerable attention has recently been given to the problem of evaluating the sampling data obtained by 4 per cent, 5 per cent, and 8 per cent checks, respectively. Their significance involves three phases: (1) The reliability of the checking record as an estimate of the total ribes population on unit areas of various sizes; (2) determining how ac

An examination is made of the observational data of past years bearing upon the subject. This examination shows clearly that the distribution of precipitation in Pacific Coast States is not, as a rule, of the same order of intensity, indeed fairly heavy precipitation in Washington and Oregon may be associated with deficient rainfall in California, and vice versa. The physical grounds for the difference in distribution are next sought. Three classes of seasonal distribution are distinguished. and these in turn are discussed with reference to their probable causes. The conclusion is reached that a knowledge of the pressure distribution over the northeastern portion of the Pacific Ocean and the Canadian Northwest affords the most hopeful avenue of approach to a rational solution of the problem.

In a previous report1it was shown that prior to September, 1917, there had been twenty-two recorded outbreaks of botulism in the United States, in which eighty-one persons were poisoned and fifty-five died. In this collection of cases one important outbreak had been overlooked. In January, 1912, Dr. A. R. McCracken2of Seattle reported a series of six cases of poisoning by home-canned asparagus, in which three of the patients died. In all, therefore, there have been at least twenty-three recorded outbreaks of botulism in this country, of which nineteen occurred in the Pacific Coast States. The mortality of these recorded cases was 66.6 per cent. In addition to the outbreaks in which human beings were affected there were also at least six instances in which domestic fowl were poisoned and showed symptoms which were identical with those produced experimentally by feeding with the toxin of Bacillus botulinus. ETIOLOGIC FACTORS

H _ _ ~OPS represent a very specialized agricultural industry. The bulk of the crop is produced by the never numerous, largescale producers. During the picking season even small-scale growers require very many workers, so that while the number of growers is limited, the hop industry has much importance as an employer of seasonal labor. The price of hops is peculiarly subject to extreme fluctuations. Partly this results from an overextension of the industry during times of high prices. Also markets are variable, depending on demand abroad and consumption by brewers within the United States. The acreage suitable for growing hops on the Pacific Coast could produce vastly more of the product than the market can consume. Such conditions require skillful management on the part of hop growers and only the most efficient can survive the competition.