Our Projects
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Seed Collection Species Identification Field Cards (2022 – 2024)
SBS designed a set of native plant species identification cards to be used by Region 6 Forest Service field personnel.
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California Vegetation Classification (2023 – 2025)
SBS has teamed with Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting to conduct vegetation classification sampling in the 4 million acre Southern Cascade Ecoregion Zone of Northern California.
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Mount Rainier National Park Visitor Use Effects on Lichens and Bryophytes
SBS contracted with GeomorphIS and the National Park Service’s Inventory and Monitoring Network to design and conduct an ecological study to research the effects of recreational visitor use on communities of lichens and bryophytes at four high-use areas across the National Park.
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Botanical Surveys (1988 – 2025)
Since 1988, SBS botanists have conducted hundreds of small to large scale botanical surveys for Threatened and Endangered, BLM/Forest Service Sensitive, ONHP target species, and noxious weeds in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
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Invasive Plant Survey Drone Mapping, Big Marsh Wetland (2016)
SBS ecologists conducted drone supported surveys to map invasive reed canary grass in the 900 acre Big Marsh wetland in the Deschutes National Forest of central Oregon.
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Rangeland Evaluation and Monitoring (2022 – 2024)
SBS ecologists have been conducting long term rangeland monitoring plots for decades in botanically complex areas throughout the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountains.
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Lava Beds N.M. Cave Lichen Inventory and Visitor Impact (2021 –2022)
SBS botanists designed a lichen inventory in relation to visitor use and environmental conditions at caves in the Lava Beds National Monument.
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Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Corridor, Biological Resource Surveys (2007-2019)
SBS managed and conducted botanical and biological surveys for a proposed 230-mile LNG utility pipeline corridor from Coos Bay to Klamath County, Oregon.
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Lower Snake River Restoration Planting Design (2011-2013)
SBS restoration ecologists were the lead native vegetation design team in a multi-party team headed by Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
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Mudflat Habitat Enhancement Design and Management Plan, Kirkland Lagoon, Central Point, Oregon (2021)
SBS staff designed a management plan to create enhanced mudflat habitat for shorebirds at a waste water lagoon system in Jackson County, Oregon.
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Siskiyou Field Institute Land Management Plan, Plant Community Mapping (2021)
SBS ecologists conducted field surveys and mapped the diverse plant communities of the approximate 1200 acre Siskiyou Field Institute (SFI) ownership in Southwest Oregon.
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Native Seed Collection and Plant Materials Contracts (2008 – 2025)
SBS has completed numerous native seed collection contracts over the past 20 years.
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Trailblazer Solar Array Noxious Weed Plan (2022)
SBS staff consulted with state and county regulatory agencies, provided on-site noxious weed surveys and created a noxious weed plan to support Standard Solar’s application for a solar array installation in Jackson County, Oregon.
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CEQA Effects Analysis (2021-2025)
This project is a collaborative strategic planning effort between the U.S. Forest Service, CALFIRE, the Horse Creek Area Fire Safe Council, private landowners, commercial timberland owners, and the Northern California Resource Center.
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August Fire Complex Botanical and Invasive Species Surveys (2021)
SBS botanists surveyed approximately 6,000 acres within the footprint of the 2020 August Fire Complex, in Trinity County, California.
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South Fork Sacramento River Public Safety and Forest Restoration Project (2021 – 2022)
SBS is currently working in collaboration with NCRC, a non-profit community and natural resource consultant to assist the Shasta-Trinity National Forest conduct botanical surveys in multiple projects within the upper South Fork Sacramento watershed.
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Klamath Dam Removal and Ecological Restoration Project (2021-2024)
SBS is currently working in collaboration with RES under the Klamath River Renewal Corporation to conduct vegetation plot sampling for the largest dam removal project in the world, along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California.
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Ashland Canal Piping Project (2019)
SBS staff provided vegetation consulting services to the City of Ashland along a 2.5 mile stretch of an irrigation canal.