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.
Mapping
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.