Click on the link to read How to Plant a Meadow handout prepared by this small Pacific Northwest seed company and landscape consulting firm. Includes info. about handling native seeds, site preparation, seeding and planting, and answers to many common questions.

Poster and native plant chart by Portland Bureau of Environmental Services You can make a difference simply by landscaping with native plants, also known as Naturescaping... View or download full Willamette Valley Native Plants poster with plant images here.

(92 pgs., available for free download for personal use, or order a paper copy from West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District ) A collection of knowledge and “lessons learned” by regional ecologists and landscape professionals. It is not meant to be a technical manual. The handbook is designed as a “how-to” publication to help gardeners, landscape professionals, and ecologists in the Willamette Valley plan, design, plant, and maintain native plant meadows on small u

( 90 min. video , from Mugsy Explains) This science teacher takes you on a fascinating journey where you'll learn everything there is to be learned about camas, a plant that historically served as the main staple food for most of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. He explains the history, anatomy, reproduction, and ecology of this amazing plant, and travels to actual camas meadows in the process. He also cultivates camas in his garden at home, and harvests, cooks

(9:30 minute video) Monarch butterfly populations have declined 90 percent across the US. A key piece of their habitat has been wiped out by farms and urban sprawl. Milkweed is the single most important plant for monarchs. It’s the only one they lay their eggs on and young caterpillars eat. People are encouraged to plant milkweed wherever they can to help monarchs along their long migration routes. [IMPORTANT: Plant only milkweed that is native to your area. In Oregon's Willa

(16:46 minute video) An educational documentary about Puget Sound prairies: what are prairies; Native American use of prairies; loss of...

(40-page booklet) Excerpts from Native Herbaceous Plants In Our Gardens: "Growing native herbaceous plants in our gardens may preserve or re-introduce many of the diverse plants that weave natural tapestries across the Willamette Valley. Herbaceous plants are annuals and perennials that lack woody stems; they include bulbs, grasses, sedges, rushes, evergreen and deciduous ferns, and broad-leaved flowering plants. Historically, these native plants thrived in the Willamette V

(8:41 minute video segment , PBS Oregon Field Guide, Season 21, Episode 2111 ) Take a look at some of the Willamette Valley’s savannah-prairie lands. See how the savannah has changed due to lack of fire. The oak savannah, one of the rarest and quickly diminishing of habitats is being crowded out by plants normally held at bay by fires. See how lack of this habitat impacts the survival of wildlife. But some land managers are working to restore pockets of the once-common oak