The nature and extent of niparian vegetation change from 1972 to
1981 in the Willamette River Greenway in Benton and Linn Counties,
Oregon was quantitatively investigated. The study was primarily by
aerial imagery analysis and associated field verification. A classification
of vegetation and land cover within the study area was...
Fires set by Native Americans were important in shaping and maintaining Willamette Valley prairie plant communities. With fire exclusion after Euro-American settlement in the 1840's, composition of the remaining prairies shifted toward shrub and tree dominance with a concomitant decline in endemic prairie plant populations. I hypothesize that by restoring...
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As species of ash trees become increasingly threatened worldwide by exotic pests and pathogens, it is important to develop descriptions of their ecologies that help guide the conservation and restoration of forests in which they are a major component. Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia) is a dominant tree species in wetland...
This thesis is a documentation of a selected number of nineteenth century quilts studied by the investigator in the Willamette Valley.
The quilts were located in museums and in individual's homes. A questionnaire, that was developed for this study of quilts, was
filled out as each quilt was examined. Slides...
The future expansion of agricultural production in the Willamette
Valley will depend to a large degree upon the feasibility of introducing
irrigated agriculture on the poorly drained soils in the Valley. A
r earch program has been initiated to investigate the feasibility of
rigation on poorly drained soils with the...