@article {83192,
	title = {Automatic Identification System (AIS) data case study: vessel traffic through the Yaquina Bay breakwater at Newport, Oregon},
	volume = {No.23-1},
	year = {2023},
	note = {Although there are two potential openings in the breakwater on the north of Yaquina Bay, there is no approved Federal channel that passes through the breakwater.  There is interest in a possible passage through the breakwater, and the Portland District of the Army Corps of Engineers is interested in exploring this possibility. {\textquotedblleft}[S]taff were interested in historical vessel transits, with a special focus on isolating transits for the largest (i.e., longest) vessels, identified as vessels 80 feet or longer, currently utilizing the area inside the breakwater. The Automatic Identification System Analysis Package (AISAP) software . . . was used to analyze vessel traffic{\textquotedblright} (p.1).  An interesting look at the movement of large vessels in the bay.},
	month = {2023, Mar.},
	pages = {8 p.},
	institution = {U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Engineer Research and Development Center},
	address = {Vicksburg, MS},
	keywords = {breakwater, harbors, navigation, ports, Sally{\textquoteright}s Bend, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/46549 },
	author = {Kress, Marin M.}
}
@article {83163,
	title = {Port of Toledo Strategic Business Plan Update:  11/23/2001 Final Strategic Business Plan Update},
	year = {2021},
	note = {Good statistics},
	pages = {55 p.},
	keywords = {Depot Slough, dredging, economics, industrial development, navigation, physical modification, Port of Toledo, ports, Tokyo Slough, Toledo (Or.), Toledo Industrial Park, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://www.portoftoledo.org/_files/ugd/bcfe89_3a93c1a11ede48cbaad53a7e0cf8cd7e.pdf},
	author = {BST Associates,, and Port of Toledo (Or.),}
}
@article {77221,
	title = {P.I.B. Ping: A Kansan in 1880s Oregon},
	journal = {Oregon Historical Quarterly},
	volume = {116},
	year = {2015},
	note = {This article describes the experiences of a Kansan working for the General Land Office in Oregon from 1882-1885.  It contains a description of early work on the jetty at Yaquina Bay, and includes a photograph of the tramway by which rocks were hauled to form a jetty. {\textquotedblleft}[We] were shown around, walked out on the tramway where the main work was going on, that of driving piling, the waves underneath dashing and throwing spray in every direction, and fairly shaking the very foundations of the earth as a swell comes in and breaks on striking the cause-way.{\textquotedblright} (p.121)},
	month = {2015, Spring},
	pages = {p. 110-129},
	keywords = {bathymetry, harbors, historical, industrial development, jetties, navigation, ports, Yaquina Bay},
	author = {Summers, Lynn}
}
@book {83263,
	title = {Yaquina Bay Dock \& Dredge and Yaquina Bay Harbor improvements from 1947-1960},
	year = {2015},
	note = {This book is essentially a compilation of newspaper clippings, documents and family photographs.  It gives the history of an important leader in the development of Newport{\textquoteright}s harbor:  the Yaquina Bay Dock \& Dredge Company. The company was founded by Frank Chamberlain and the book gives some of the history of the Chamberlain family. The book is almost all clippings; it suffers from a lack of narrative or editorial commentary. It Is an interesting approach to the history of a family that contributed to the development of one of Oregon{\textquoteright}s major ports.},
	month = {2015, Dec.},
	publisher = {Paper Trails Publishing},
	organization = {Paper Trails Publishing},
	chapter = {135 p.},
	address = {Bend, Or.},
	keywords = {dredging, harbors, historical, industrial development, navigation, Newport (Or.), ports},
	author = {Beal, Suzy (compiler)}
}
@article {83162,
	title = {Port of Toledo Strategic Business \& Capital Investment Plan:  Final Report, March, 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {Colored maps, architectural drawings},
	pages = {49 p.},
	keywords = {Depot Slough, dredging, economics, industrial development, navigation, physical modification, Port of Toledo, ports, Tokyo Slough, Toledo (Or.), Yaquina River},
	url = {https://www.portoftoledo.org/_files/ugd/58cab9_166bc84dea7d408a88a760e42d8c04d0.pdf},
	author = {Port of Toledo (Or.),}
}
@article {52381,
	title = {Yaquina Bay, Oregon:  Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Sites Evaluation Study and Environmental Assessment},
	year = {2012},
	note = {This document outlines potential disposal sites for dredging tailings close inshore off Newport and makes recommendations.  Includes maps of alternatives.},
	pages = {44 p.},
	institution = {U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District},
	address = {Portland, Or.},
	keywords = {dredging, geography, harbors, navigation, ports, sediments, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/USACE\%20and\%20EPA\%202012.pdf},
	author = {U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Portland District, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Region 10,}
}
@mastersthesis {33896,
	title = {Beacon in the Night: Contested Space and Regional Culture on the Central Oregon Coast},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {171 p.},
	school = {Utah State University},
	type = {Masters Thesis},
	edition = {M.A.},
	chapter = {Dept. of American Studies},
	address = {Logan, Utah},
	keywords = {lighthouses, navigation, theses, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina River},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.26076/eb26-fd64},
	url = {https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4715 },
	author = {Roman, Melissa}
}
@proceedings {49756,
	title = {Broad toe berm jetty head design, Yaquina North Jetty},
	year = {2003},
	note = {This paper details 2001 repairs to restore the Yaquina Bay North Jetty to its authorized length.  This repair brought together two different design concepts to stabilize the crest and strengthen the toe berm. {\textquotedblleft}The first jetty system on the Pacific Coast was built at Yaquina Bay in Oregon{\textellipsis}{\textquotedblright} (p.1199)},
	pages = {p.1199-1211},
	publisher = {American Society of Civil Engineers},
	address = {Portland, Or.},
	keywords = {engineering, harbors, jetties, navigation, North Jetty, ports, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina River},
	author = {Moritz, Heidi P. and Jeffries, Alan C. and Moritz, Hans R.},
	editor = {Jeffrey A Melby and American Society of Civil Engineers. Coasts Oceans Ports and Rivers Institute}
}
@article {24916,
	title = {Study of Justification for and Benefits from Combined Appropriation for Maintenance Dredging},
	year = {1989},
	note = {In light of potential budget cuts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the Oregon Ports Division commissioned this study to get the most out of available funding for harbor maintenance through dredging. Among the consultants{\textquoteright} recommendations were to combine all Oregon port maintenance, and to reduce expenditures by reducing dredging targets for some harbors. Includes data on expenditures, summary of dredging by port for 1983-1988, and information on Coast Guard stations. },
	pages = {45 p.},
	institution = {Benkendorf Associates Corporation},
	address = {Portland, Or.},
	keywords = {Chetco River, Coquille River, Depoe Bay, dredging, harbors, navigation, ports, Rogue River, Siuslaw River, statistics, Tillamook Bay, Umpqua River, Yaquina Bay},
	author = {Benkendorf \& Associates, and Oregon. Ports Division,}
}
@article {28501,
	title = {Proposed Modification of the Yaquina River for Navigational Channel from Deep Water in Yaquina Bay to River Mile 14 in the Vicinity of Toledo, Oregon},
	year = {1967},
	note = {"Public hearing, Toledo City Hall, Toledo, Oregon, April 20, 1967.""A presentation to the U.S. Army Engineer District, Portland, Corps of Engineers." Charts. Includes statistics of river-based economic activity in Toledo, i.e., board feet of lumber shipped, wood chips shipped, etc. from 1957 to 1966.},
	pages = {48 p.},
	institution = {Port of Toledo},
	address = {Toledo, Or. },
	keywords = {commercial fisheries, dredging, industrial development, logging, navigation, Port of Toledo, Toledo, Yaquina River},
	author = {Port of Toledo (Or.),}
}
@article {27771,
	title = {Investigation of fish stoppage due to log jams in the Yaquina River and Elk River, August 12, 1952},
	volume = {no.19},
	year = {1952},
	note = {"A survey was made on this date for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not log jams in the Elk City region of the Yaquina River and Elk River (Yaquina River tributary) were a serious menace to the passage of salmon." (p.1) },
	pages = {3 p.},
	keywords = {Abbey Creek, Elk City, Elk River, logging, navigation, salmonids, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/12579s91d},
	author = {Marriage, Lowell D. and Waldron, Kenneth D. and Oregon. Fish Commission. Shellfish Program}
}
@article {27296,
	title = {An act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oregon},
	volume = {1918/1919 pt.3},
	year = {1919},
	note = {This is Chapter 204 in section, "Laws Affecting Corps of Engineers." Gives text of H.R. 7637 (65th Congress, 2nd Session), Nov. 7, 1918, which authorizes a dike on Depot Slough, "with a gate therein so constructed and maintained as to be readily opened and operated to permit the passage of logs, but arranged to automatically close for such times as may be necessary to prevent the overflowing by the tides of the lands above the said dike..."  Secretary of War and Army Corps Chief of Engineers have to approve construction, and the dike or dam cannot be used "to develop water power or to generate electricity."  In Google Books.},
	pages = {p.3949},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {Depot Slough, diking, land use, navigation, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/3x7dbg3},
	author = {United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,}
}
@article {27306,
	title = {Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oreg.},
	volume = {1918/1919 pt.3},
	year = {1919},
	note = {Describes preparations for extending the South Jetty. Gives commercial statistics and freight traffic.},
	pages = {p.3419-3420},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {jetties, navigation, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/3x7dbg3},
	author = {United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,}
}
@article {27301,
	title = {Yaquina River, Oreg.},
	volume = {1918/1919 pt.3},
	year = {1919},
	note = {Describes efforts to restore a 6 1/2 mile stretch of river from Oysterville to Toledo for shipping. Describes dredging process, volume of sediment removed and costs. Gives statistics for boat traffic.},
	pages = {p.3417-3419},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {dredging, navigation, Oysterville, Toledo, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/3x7dbg3},
	author = {United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,}
}
@article {27276,
	title = {Dike on Olalla Slough, Lincoln County, Oreg.},
	volume = {63rd Congress, 2nd Session, no.649},
	year = {1914},
	note = {63rd Congress, 2nd Session, no.649.  Authorizes maintenance of a dike on Olalla Slough, which was recommended by the War Department, "provided a suitable gate is inserted therein, to be opened and closed at certain stages of the tide for the passage of boats.""Olalla Slough is a tidal stream emptying into Yaquina River, the tidal influence extending about 2 miles up the slough from its mouth, for which distance it is navigable at half tide for small boats and scows . . . The stream is used to a limited extent by settlers to transport their farm products to market and to float logs to the sawmills on Yaquina River."},
	pages = {2 p.},
	keywords = {dams, diking, navigation, Olalla Slough, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/2b559f6},
	author = {U.S. Congress. Senate,}
}
@article {27271,
	title = {Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of preliminary examination of Yaquina Bay and Bar entrance, Oregon},
	volume = {no.1358, 62nd Congress, 3rd session},
	year = {1913},
	note = {This is a response for a request for improvement of the Yaquina Bay bar and harbor entrance. Includes information on port and terminal facilities, area industries and commerce, and work done upriver from Yaquina to Elk City. Concludes that further work on the harbor entrance is unjustified.},
	pages = {12 p.},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {harbors, jetties, navigation, North Jetty, South Jetty, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/5m60qs36s},
	author = {United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors,}
}
@article {27186,
	title = {Yaquina Bay, Oreg.},
	volume = {2},
	year = {1903},
	note = {Summary of work the Army Corps of Engineers did on the Yaquina from 1866-1900. Lists surveys of 1885/1886, 1892, 1894/1895, and 1899. Lists projects from 1880-1896. Index to where the Yaquina is mentioned in reports of the Chief Engineer.},
	pages = {p.1332-1333},
	institution = {Government Printing Office},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {economics, historical, hydrography, navigation, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/prs4r8zs},
	author = {U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District}
}
@article {36436,
	title = {Improvement of Yaquina Bay, Oregon},
	volume = {no. RR 10},
	year = {1897},
	note = {Issued in the Annual reports of the War Department. Report  of the Chief of Engineers, Appendices part 4.  An 1895 survey proposed extending the North Jetty by 2,100 feet and the South Jetty by 2,200 feet to deepen the water on the inner bar.  It also planned for building groins to prevent wave action from undermining the jetties,  and removing {\textquotedblleft}two detached rocks in the paths of vessels{\textquotedblright} (p.3395).  At the time of this report, the Corps was waiting for adequate funding to proceed with the project. This report includes an excellent summary of this history of the entrance to the harbor and previous work done. Includes commercial statistics for the bay.},
	month = {1896/97},
	pages = {p.3394-3397},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {harbors, jetties, navigation, North Jetty, physical modifications, ports, South Jetty, transportation, Yaquina Bay},
	author = {Fisk, W. L. and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,}
}
@article {27146,
	title = {Yaquina Bay and Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon},
	volume = {no.37, 54th Congress, 2nd session},
	year = {1897},
	note = {Discusses appropriations for engineering projects in Yaquina Bay, the Willamette River and the Yamhill River. Money was appropriated for continuing improvement of the Yaquina Bay jetties, for a "snag boat" and to build dikes on the Willamette River, and for a lock and dam on the Yamhill River.},
	pages = {3 p.},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {harbors, jetties, navigation, North Jetty, South Jetty, Willamette River, Yamhill River, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/6w924c14h},
	author = {United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce,}
}
@article {27111,
	title = {Preliminary examination of Yaquina Bay, Oregon},
	volume = {53rd Congress, 3rd Session. Executive Document no.227},
	year = {1895},
	note = {Reports on a study to consider increasing the depth of the channel at the entrance to Yaquina Bay. Recommends against further channel deepening. "In my opinion it is beyond the power of man to make it into a harbor of sufficient capacity for deep-draft ships engaged in foreign commerce, or in fact to give this entrance a bar channel depth appreciably greater than that now existing." (p.3)},
	pages = {4 p.},
	institution = {Government Printing Office},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {bathymetry, harbors, jetties, navigation, physical, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina Bay Bar},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/6395w759n},
	author = {U.S. Congress. House,}
}
@article {77186,
	title = {Yaquina River Entrance, Oregon [cartographic material]},
	year = {1895},
	note = {This delightful map from 1895 shows the old and new lighthouses, a system of beacons, oyster beds, a shipwreck on the shore, and local communities. It covers the entrance to Yaquina Bay upriver to the Oysterville area. Topography dates from 1868-1887. Hydrography dates from 1868. {\textquotedblleft}The bar is from an examination by the Corps of Engineers U.S.A. in 1894.{\textquotedblright} {\textquotedblleft}Note:  the bar is subject to frequent change and the buoys are shifted accordingly. Strangers should not attempt to cross the bar without a pilot.{\textquotedblright}  Available from NOAA{\textquoteright}s Historical Charts page: https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/ .},
	keywords = {harbors, map, navigation, ports, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina River},
	author = {U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.,}
}
@article {27096,
	title = {Bar at entrance to harbor at Yaquina Bay, Oregon},
	volume = {52nd Congress, 2nd Session. Executive Document no.96},
	year = {1892},
	note = {In 1892, the bar at the entrance of Yaquina Bay was 14 feet deep at low tide. Requests to deepen the entrance to 25 feet came from local residents, including supporters of T. Egerton Hogg{\textquoteright}s Oregon Pacific Railroad, which had its terminus on the bay at Yaquina. The request to deepen the harbor entrance was found to be impractical and too expensive. The report includes a letter supporting the proposed project from William M. Hoag, receiver for the Oregon Pacific Railroad. Accompanied by: 1 map. December 9, 1892.},
	pages = {8 p.},
	institution = {Government Printing Office},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {bathymetry, dredging, economics, navigation, North Jetty, physical, South Jetty, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina Bay Bar},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/mp48sd28n},
	author = {U.S. Congress. House,}
}
@article {27086,
	title = {On the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound; and government improvements on the Pacific Coast},
	journal = {Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers},
	volume = {25},
	year = {1891},
	note = {Notes prospective and current engineering projects at West Coast harbors in the early 1890s. Includes maps of harbor entrances. "Yaquina Bay has another good appropriation... The project approved is, to raise the south jetty to full high-water without extending it, and to construct a mid-tide jetty on the north side of the entrance..."  The relationship between the jetties and the reef is discussed.},
	pages = {p.420-441},
	keywords = {Coos Bay, Coquille River estuary, harbors, jetties, navigation, Nehalem River estuary, physical modification, sediments, Siuslaw River estuary, Umpqua River estuary, Yaquina Bay},
	author = {DeCourcy, Bolton W.}
}
@article {27076,
	title = {Lights in Yaquina Bay, Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending an appropriation for the establishment of proper lights in Yaquina Bay, Oregon},
	volume = {no.258, 51st Congress, 1st session},
	year = {1890},
	note = {This report concerns an appropriation "For the establishment of proper harbor lights in Yaquina Bay, Oregon..."},
	pages = {1 p.},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {economics, harbors, navigation, Yaquina Bay},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/pk02cb25z},
	author = {U.S.. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce,}
}
@book {27051,
	title = {A History of Benton County, Oregon Including Its Geology, Topography, Soil and Productions},
	year = {1885},
	note = {Written just 20 years after the area was opened for white settlement, and when the Yaquina watershed was still part of Benton County, Fagan{\textquoteright}s history gives a good look at the beginnings of American settlements and commerce in the area. Chapter 35 (geography) and 50-51 (Yaquina Precinct history) are of particular interest.  "Eight sloughs, varying in length from two to six miles, branch off from the main river, five on one side and three on the other, and are navigable to their heads by batteaux, upon which farmers can take their produce to port on two tides, if not one, with but slight assistance from sail or oar." (p.298) Chapter 51 was reprinted in 1959 by the Lincoln County Historical Society as "The Yaquina Bay Country and Its People."},
	publisher = {A.G. Walling},
	organization = {A.G. Walling},
	address = {Portland, Or.},
	keywords = {agriculture, Alsea Bay, Alsea River, demographics, historical, navigation, Olympia oyster=Ostrea lurida (Ostrea conchaphila), Siletz Reservation, Siletz River, Yachats River, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina River},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/4m2b7zz8},
	author = {Fagan, David D.}
}
