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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.