Clients: BLM, US Forest Service, ODOT, Freshwater Trust, University of Oregon, Rogue Native Plant Partnership, Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Indians
SBS has completed numerous native seed collection and plant materials contracts over the past 20 years. From 2009 to 2012, our staff worked with the Medford District BLM’s Seeds of Success program, to collect a minimum of 10,000 seeds each from 70 species of native trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs in Southwest Oregon. This program targeted “banking seed” of nearly the entire flora of the United States.
Starting in 2009, SBS provided native, locally-sourced seed for an ODOT vernal pool mitigation site in Central Point, Oregon. To support this multi-year project, our staff provided more than 40 species, mapped collection locations, monitored seed development, and provided the mobilization and management of workers collecting seed at numerous locations within the Agate Desert area of the Rogue Valley.
Between 2008 and 2022, our staff has managed large seed collection contractions with Vale and Roseburg Districts of the BLM and the Olympic, Umatilla, Umpqua and Rogue-Siskiyou Forest Service. In each contract our SBS botanists located and monitored seed collection sites for multiple species, provided preliminary cleaning of seed, and delivered seed to regional seed extractor centers.
In 2025 SBS collected and packaged for timely delivery 900 live stakes of various riparian species for a restoration project conducted by the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Indians on their newly acquired land holdings near Upper Table Rock in the Rogue Valley.