Historical Archives: The Bibliography

This bibliography charts important research and papers on California's native grasses and grassland management from the earliest papers by Sampson to the present. As an educational service to our membership, CNGA is reproducing many of the earlier, historical out-of-print articles and papers in the format in which they were originally written. Gradually, the bibliography will expand, as will the number of reproduced papers, presenting important earlier papers as well as recent papers devoted to California native grasses and grassland management.

1908: The revegetation of overgrazed range areas, preliminary report (Sampson, A.W.)
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Circular 158. 21 pp.
1909: Natural revegetation of depleted mountain grazing lands, progress report (Sampson, A.W.)
US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, Circular 158, 28 pp.
1919: Plant succession in relation to range management (Sampson, A.W.)
US Dept of Agriculture Bulletin 791, Washington, D.C. 76 pp.
1923: Range and Pasture Management (Sampson, A.W.)
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 421 pp.
1924: Native American Forage Plants (Sampson, A.W.)
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 435 pp.
1930: The carbohydrate metabolism of Stipa pulchra (Sampson, A.W. and E.C. McCarty)
Hilgardia, 5(4): 61-100
1931: Establishment and succession of vegetation on different soil horizons (Sinclair, J.D. and A.W. Sampson)
Hilgardia, 5(7): 155-174
1931: Growth and yield of certain gramineae as influenced by reduction of photosynthetic tissue (Parker, K.W. and A.W. Sampson)
Hilgardia, 5(10): 361-381
1939: Composition of common California foothill plants as a factor in range management (Gordon, A. and A.W. Sampson)
Bulletin 627, Univ. of California Agric. Exp. Station, Berkeley, CA, 95 pp.
1944: Preliminary trials on the effect of management on the establishment of perennial grasses and legumes at Davis (Love, M.R.)
Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, Vol. 36:699-703
1945: Improving California Ranges (Jones, Burle J. and R.M. Love)
California Agricultural Extension Service, Circular 129
1947: Distribution of the Native Grasses of California (Beetle, Alan A.)
Hilgardia, Vol. 17, No. 9
1947: Irrigated pastures in California (Jones, B.J. and J.B. Brown)
California Agricultural Extension Service, Circular 125, 48 pp.
1948: Pastures: Irrigated and Dry Range (Jones, Burle J.)
Pacific Stockman: The Producers Livestock Monthly, Vol. 14, No. 6
1948: Eight New Forage Plants Developed for California Ranges (Love, R. Merton)
California Agriculture, Vol. 2, No. 1
1948: California oatgrass (Jones, Burle J.)
Pacific Stockman, 14(6)
1949: Delayed Germination of California Oatgrass, Danthonia californica (Laude, Horton M.)
Agronomy Journal, Vol. 41: 404-408
1949: Reaction of a California annual-plant community to fire (Hervey, D.F.)
Journal of Range Management, 2: 116-121
1950: Cucamonga Brome: A New Grass for Covercropping (Lemmon, Paul E., A.L. Hafenrichter, and B.A. Madson)
California Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular 401
1951: Range Grass and Reseeding Experiments in California (Love, R. Merton)
California Agriculture, Vol. 5, No. 1
1951: The return of native perennial bunchgrass following the removal of Klamath weed (Hypericum perforatum L.) by imported beetles (Huffaker, C.B.)
Ecology, 32: 442-458
1951: California grassland and range forage grasses (Sampson, A.W., A. Chase, and D.W. Hendrick)
California Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 724, 130 pp.
1952: Range Management Principles and Practices (Sampson, A.W.)
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 570 pp.
1956: Ecology of California grasslands (Biswell, H.H.)
Journal of Range Management, 9:19-24
1956: Evaluation and measurement of the California annual type (Heady, H.F.)
Journal of Range Management, 9: 25-27
1956: Changes in a California annual plant community induced by manipulation of natural mulch (Heady, H.F.)
Ecology, 37: 798-812
1957: Seeding and Grazing Trials of Stipa on Foothill Ranges (Green, Lisle R. and Jay R. Bentley)
Forest Research Notes, No. 128
1957: California range land: an historico-ecological study of the range resource of California (Burcham, L.T.)
California Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, Sacramento, 261 pp.
1958: Vegetational changes in the California annual type (Heady, H.F.)
Ecology, 39: 402-416
1959: A study on the germination of medusa-head seed (Murphy, A.H. and D. Turner)
Bulletin, California Dept. of Agriculture, Vol. XLVIII(1), 10 pp,
1960: Fort Baker Ranges Return to Champagne Grass (Cooper, D.W.)
Journal of Range Management, Vol. 13, pp 203-205
1960: Improvement of medusahead-infested rangeland (Major, J., C.M. McKell, and L.J. Berry)
California Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service Leaflet 123, 3 pp.
1963: Cucamonga California Bromegrass (Miller, H.W.)
Crop Science,
1963: Then and Now: Changes in California Annual-Type Range Vegetation (Woolfolk, E.J. and J.N. Reppert)
U.S. Forest Service Research Note, PSW-N24
1963: Wimmera 62 Ryegrass (Reg. No. 11) (Miller, H.W.)
Crop Science,
1966: Cleistogenes in Danthonia (Dobrenz, A.K. and A.A. Beetle)
Journal of Range Management, Vol. 19: 292-296
1966: Old-field succession on Hastings Reservation, California (White, K.L.)
Ecology, 47: 865-868
1966: Buried viable seeds in two California bunchgrass sites and their bearing on the definition of a flora (Major, J. and W.T. Pyott)
Vegetation, 13: 253-282
1967: Irrigated pastures in California (Raguse, C.A., L.J. Berry, and J.E. Street)
Circular 545, California Agricultural Experiment Station Extension Service, 35 pp.
1967: Native bunchgrass Stipa pulchra on Hastings Reservation, California (White, K.L.)
Ecology, 48(6): 950-955
1968: Invasion of grassland by Baccharis pilularis, D.C. (McBride, J. and H.F. Heady)
Journal of Range Management, 21: 106-108
1968: An Analysis of Ecological Factors Limiting the Distribution of a Group of Stipa pulchra Associations Within the Foothill Woodland of California (Robinson, R.H.)
PhD Thesis, University of Oklahoma,
1972: California Prairie Ecosystems. Vol I: The Central Valley Prairie (Barry, W.J.)
Sacramento, State of California Resources Agency, Dept. of Parks and Recreation,
1973: Temperature requirements for seed germination in an annual-type rangeland community (Young, J.A., R.A. Evans, and B.L. Kay)
Agron. Journ., 65: 656-659
1977: Valley grassland (Heady, H.F.)
In Barbour, M.F. and J. Major (eds.) Terrestrial Vegetation of California, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp 491-514
1977: Coastal prairie and northern coastal scrub (Heady, H.F., T.C. Foin, M.M. Hektner, D.W. Taylor, M.G. Barbour, and W.J. Barry)
In Barbour, M.F. and J. Major (eds.) Terrestrial Vegetation of California, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp 733-760
1977: Vegetation analysis of a northern California coastal prairie: Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California (Hektner, M.M. and T.C. Foin)
Madrono, 24: 83-103
1977: The potential for dominance by Stipa pulchra in a California grassland (Hull, J.C. and C.H. Muller)
American Midland Naturalist, 97: 145-175
1977: Comparative structure and function in a California annual and native bunchgrass community (Savelle, G.D.)
PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley,
1978: Invasion and replacement in California and neotropical grasslands (Baker, H.G.)
In Wilson, J.R. (ed.), Plant Relations in Pastures, Melbourne, Australia, CSIRO, pp 368-384
1979: Germination and seedling establishment in California annual grassland (Bartolome, J.W.)
Journal of Ecology, 67: 273-281
1981: Life Histories of Vernal Pool Annual Grasses (Griggs, Thomas)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(1): 14-17
1981: Notes on Planting and Maintenance of Bunchgrasses (Rogers, Dennis)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(1): 24-28
1981: Propagating Native Perennial Grasses (McClaran, Mitchel P.)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(1): 21-23
1981: Discussion: Revegetation with Native Grasses. I. A Disappointing History (Kay, Burgess L.; R. Merton Love, and Robert D. Slayback)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(3): 11-15
1981: Stipa pulchra, a Survivor from the Pristine Prairie (Bartolome, James W.)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(1): 3-6
1981: Jepson Prairie: Will it be Preserved? (Barry, W. James)
Fremontia, Vol. 9(1): 7-11
1981: The ecological status of Stipa pulchra (Poaceae) in California (Bartolome, J.W. and B. Gemmill)
Madrono, 28: 172-184
1981: Native grasslands endangered at Hungry Valley (Howard, A.)
Fremontia, 9(1): 21-23
1981: Discussion: Revegetation with native grasses: II. A promising future (McClaran, M.P. and J.W. Bartolome)
Fremontia, 9(3): 14-15
1982: Guidelines for residue management on annual range (Clawson, W.J., N.K. McDouglas, and D.A. Duncan)
University of California Division of Agricultural Science, Leaflet 21327
1983: Fire ecology of Stipa pulchra in California annual grassland (Ahmed, E.O.)
PhD Dissertation, University of California, Davis,
1985: Nursery production of western native perennial grasses for site stabilization (Amme, David)
International Erosion Control Association, Proceedings of Conference XVI, February 21-22, 198
1985: The Bradley Method of Eliminating Exotic Plants from Natural Reserves (Fuller, T.C. and G. Douglas Barbe)
Fremontia, Vol. 13(2): 24-25
1985: Phalaris, orchardgrass, fescue, and selected minor grasses. Part I. Perennial grasses for California rangelands (Adams, T.E. and B.L. Kay)
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of Society for Range Management, 128-132
1985: Ecological origins of California's Mediterranean grasses (Jackson, L.E.)
Jounal of Biogeography, 12: 349-361
1985: Fertilization of nonseeded annual grassland (George, M.R. and M.B. Jones)
University of California, Davis, Range Science Report No. 2
1986: Secondary succession and the fate of native species in a California coastal prairie community (Foin, T.C. and M.M. Hektner)
Madrono, 33: 189-206
1986: Opal phytoliths as evidence for displacement of native grasslands (Bartolome, J.W., S.E. Klukert, and W.J. Barry)
Madrono, 33: 217-222
1989: Restoration and Management of California's Grassland Habitats (Amme, David and Barbara M. Pitschel)
Presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration and Management Annual Meeting, January 16-20, 1989, Oakland CA,
1989: Effects of defoliation on three native perennial grasses in the California annual grassland (Dennis, A.)
PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley,
1989: Impacts of non-domesticated vertebrates on California grasslands (Lidicker, W.Z.)
In: Huenneke, L.F. and H.A. Mooney (eds.) Grassland Structure and Function: California Annual Grassland, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 135-150
1989: Management controls on productivity (Menke, J.W.)
In: Huenneke, L.F. and H.A. Mooney (eds.) Grassland Structure and Function: California Annual Grassland., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 173-199
1992: Native Perennial Grass Establishment and Management (Kephart, Paul and David Amme)
Grasslands, February 1992
1992: Grazing and fire management for native perennial grass restoration in California grasslands (Menke, J.W.)
Fremontia, 20(2): 22-25
1995: Notes on grazing and native plants in central California (Edwards, S.W.)
The Four Seasons, 10: 61-67
1996: Defoliation response and growth of Nassella pulchra (A. Hitchc.) Barkworth from serpentine and non-serpentine populations (Huntsinger, L.H., M.P. McClaran, A. Dennis, and J.W. Bartolome)
Madrono, 43: 46-57
1996: Long-term patterns in coastal California grasslands in relation to cultivation, gophers, and grazing (Stromberg, M.R. and J.R. Griffin)
Ecological Applications, 6: 1189-1211
1999: Effects of burning and grazing on a coastal California grassland (Hatch, D.A., J.W. Bartolome, J.S. Fehmi, and D.S. Hillyard)
Restoration Ecology, 7(4): 376-381
2000: Ecology and Restoration of California Grasslands with special emphasis on the influence of fire and grazing on native grassland species (D'Antonio, Carla; Susan Bainbridge; Coleman Kennedy, James Bartolome, Sally Reynolds)
Dept. of Integrative Biology; Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, 99 pp
2000: Vina Plains Preserve: Eighteen years of adaptive management (Griggs, F.T.)
Fremontia, 27(4): 48-51
2001: Keynote: Common Ground and Controversy in Native Plant Restoration: the SOMS Debate, Source Distance, Plant Selections, and a Restoration-Oriented Definition of Nature (Kaye, Thomas N.)
Nursery Technology Cooperative and Western Forestry and Conservation Association, Conference Proceedings: Native Plant Propagation a
2001: Composition, invisibility, and diversity in coastal California grasslands (Stromberg, M.R., P. Kephart, and V. Yadon)
Madrono, 48(4): 236-252
2003: Cattle Grazing Impacts on Annual Forbs and Vegetation Composition of Mesic Grasslands in Califorina (Hayes, Grey F. and Karen D. Holl)
Conservation Biology, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp 1694-1702
2003: Nassella Notes (Amme, David)
Grasslands, Vol. 13, No. 4
2003: Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species (Seabloom, Eric W., W. Stanley Harpole, O.J. Reichman, and David Tilman)
PNAS, Vol.100, No. 23
2003: Creating a Native California Meadow (Amme, David)
Grasslands, Vol. 13 (3):1, pp 9-11
2003: Site-specific responses of native and exotic species to disturbances in a mesic grassland community (Hayes, G.F. and K.D. Holl)
Applied Vegetation Science, 6: 235-244
2003: Competition, seed limitation, disturbance, and reestablishment of California native annual forbs (Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Border, V.L. Boucher, R.S. Murton, K.L. Cottingham, L. Goldwasser, W.K. Gram, B.E. Kendall, and F. Micheli)
Ecological Applications, 13(3): 575-592
2004: Competition between native perennial and exotic annual grasses: implications for an historical invasion (Corbin, J.D. and C.M. D'Antonio)
Ecology, 85(5): 1273-1283
2005: Responses of a remnant California native bunchgrass population to grazing, burning and climatic variation (Marty, Jaymee T.; Sharon K. Collinge, and Kevin J. Rice)
Plant Ecology, Vol. 181: 101-112
2005: Summer water use by California coastal prairie grasses: fog, drought, and community composition (Corbin, J.D., M.A. Thomsen, T.E. Dawson, and C.M. D'Antonio)
Oecologia, 11 pp
2006: California Native Grasslands: A Historical Perspective--A Guide for Developing Realistic Restoration Objectives (Barry, Sheila; Stephanie Larson, and Melvin George)
Grasslands, Winter 2006
2006: Restoration of a coastal California grassland after invasion by nitrogen-fixing shrubs, French broom and Scotch broom (Haubensak, K.A. and C.M. D'Antonio)
Ecological Restoration, 24(2) 93-99
2007: Native roadside perennial grasses persist a decade after planting in the Sacramento Valley (O'Dell, Ryan; Stephen L. Young; and Victor P. Claassen)
California Agriculture, Vol.61, No.2; http://CaliforniaAgriculture.ucop.ed
2007: Variation in the initial success of seeded native bunchgrasses in the rangeland foothills of Yolo County, California (Lulow, M.E., T.P. Young, J.L. Wirka, and J.H. Anderson)
Ecological Restoration, 25(1): 20-28

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