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Boag, P. G. 1992. Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in the Nineteenth Century Oregon. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Boyd, R. 1986. Strategies of Indian burning in the Willamette Valley. Canadian Journal of Anthropology 5:65-86.
Boyd, R. 1999. Indians, fire, and the land in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press.
Cole, D. 1977. Ecosystem dynamics in the coniferous forest of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA. Journal of Biogeography 4:181-192.
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Douglas, D. 1959. Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America, 1823-1827. Antiquarian Press, New York.
Finley, K. K. 1995. Hydrology and related soil features of three Willamette Valley wetland prairies. Masters Thesis, Oregon State University.
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Habeck, J. R. 1961. The original vegetation of the mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon. Northwest Science 35:65-77.
Habeck, J. B. 1962. Forest succession in Monmouth Township, Polk County, Oregon since 1850. Proc. Montana Acad. Sci. 21:7-17.
Hibbs, D. E., and B. J. Yoder. 1993. Development of Oregon white oak seedlings. Northwest Science 67:30-36.
Holland, C.C., J. Honea, S.E. Gwin, and M.E. Kentula. 1995. Wetland degradation and loss in the rapidly urbanizing area of Portland, Oregon. Wetlands 15(4):336-345.
Hulse, D., S. Gregory, and J. P.Baker (editors). 2002. Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas: Trajectories of Environmental and Ecological Change. Oregon State University Press.
Jancaitis, J. E. 2001. Restoration of a Willamette Valley wet prairie: An evaluation of two management techniques. Master’s Thesis, University of Oregon.
Johannessen, C. L., W. A. Davenport, A. Millet, and S. McWilliams. 1971. The vegetation of the Willamette Valley. Ann. Ass. Am. Geogr. 61:286-302.
Kaye, T. N., and K. Kuykendall. 2001. Effects of scarification and cold stratification on seed germination of Lupinus sulphureus ssp. kincaidii. Seed Science & Technology 29:663-668.
Kaye, T.N. and K. Kuykendall. 2001. Germination and propagation techniques for restoring rare Pacific Northwest prairie plants. Pages 213-224 in Reichard, S.H., P.W. Dunwiddie, J.G. Gamon, A.R. Kruckeberg, D.L. Salstrom, editors. Conservation of Washington’s Native Plants and Ecosystems. Washington Native Plant Society, Seattle, Washington.
Kaye, T. N., K. L. Pendergrass, K. Finley, and J. B. Kauffman. 2001. The effect of fire on the population viability of an endangered prairie plant. Ecological Applications 11:1366-1380.
Kentula, M. E. 2000. Perspective on setting success criteria for wetland restoration. Ecological Engineering 15:199-210.
Kentula, M. E., S. E. Gwin, and S. M. Pierson. 2004. Tracking changes in wetlands with urbanization: Sixteen years of experience in Portland, Oregon, USA. Wetlands 24:734-743.
Lippert, B. E., and D. L. Jameson. 1964. Plant succession in temporary ponds of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. American Midland Naturalist 71:181-197.
Magee, T. K., K. A. Dwire, M. e. Kentula, T. L. Ernst. 1999. Floristic comparison of freshwater wetlands in an urbanizing environment. Wetlands 19:517-534.
Merrifield, K. 2001. Bryophyte flora of William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Madrono 48:17-24.
Moir, W., and P. Mika. 1972. Prairie vegetation of the Willamette Valley, Benton County, Oregon. Unpublished report, USDA Forest Service Forestry Sciences Lab (Copy in Herbarium Library, Oregon State University).
Nelson, J. C. 1919. The grasses of Salem, Oregon and vicinity. Torreya 19:216-227. (PDF courtesy of Karl A. Anderson)
Pendergrass, K. L. 1995. Vegetation composition and response to fire of native Willamette Valley wetland prairies. Master’s Thesis, Oregon State University.
Pendergrass, K. L., P. M. Miller, and J. B. Kauffman. 1997. Prescribed fire and the response of woody species in Willamette Valley wetland prairies. Restoration Ecology 6:303-311.
Pendergrass, K. L., P. M. Miller, and J. B. Kauffman. 1999. The role of prescribed burning in maintenance of an endangered plant species, Lomatium bradshawii. Ecological Applications 4:1420-1429.
Sedell, J., and J. Froggatt. 1984. Importance of streamside forests to large rivers: The isolation of the Willamette River, Oregon, U.S.A., from its floodplain by snagging and streamside forest removal. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 22:1828-1834.
Smith, J. E. 1949. Natural vegetation in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Science 109:41-42.
Smith, W. P. 1985. Plant associations within the interior valleys of the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon. Journal of Range Management 38:526-530.
Sprague, F. L., and H. P. Hansen. 1946. Forest succession in the McDonald Forest, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Northwest Science 20:89-98.
Streatfeild, R. 1995. Ecological survey and interpretation of the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area, W. L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Masters Thesis, Oregon State University.
Streatfeild, R., and R. E. Frenkel. 1997. Ecological survey and interpretation of the Willamette Floodplain Research Natural Area, W.L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon USA. Natural Areas Journal 17:346-354.
Taft, O. W., and S. M. Haig. 2003. Historical wetlands in Oregon’s Willamette Valley: Implications for restoration of winter waterbird habitat. Wetlands 23:51-64.
Thilenius, J. F. 1968. The Quercus garryana forests of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ecology 49:1124-1133.
Titus, J. H., J. A. Christy, D. VanderSchaaf, J. S. Kagan, and E. R. Alverson. 1996. Native wetland, riparian, and upland plant communities and their biota in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Report to Environmental Protection Agency, Region X, Seattle, Washington.
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Towle, J. C. 1982. Changing geography of Willamette Valley woodlands. Oregon Historical Quarterly 83(1):66-87.