Bandon Public Library

This booklet offers gardeners and landscape designers many choices of plants that work for gardens while protecting the health and beauty of Oregon's natural lands and waters. Highlighted are plants that should be avoided because they are invasive, and offer non-invasive alternatives (both native and non-native ornamentals) that you can safely plant instead.

The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow animals...

An easy-to-use, wide-ranging guide to invasive plants in North America. Features full-color photos and descriptions of some 175 alien species--both terrestrial and aquatic--that are in some cases changing the landscape to an almost unimaginable degree. Accompanying text describes the plant's environmental and economic impacts as well as management techniques used to control it. Also includes an explanation of what an invasive is and a step-by-step...

Scientists, land managers, ranchers, and others discuss the effects of western juniper encroachment on the eastern Oregon landscape, and the need for active management.