Adopt a Highway

Conservation Seeding & Restoration adopts a highway: Hwy 93, mile marker 0 – 2. CSR welcomes you to Idaho!!!

7,000 Sagebrush Seedlings, WY Game & Fish

Sagebrush planting project for the Wyoming Game and Fish: 7,000 sagebrush seedlings installed in 94 different planting locations within a 50,000 acre wildfire area southeast of Worland, WY. Each planting area has an 8 X 8 ft. long, 48 in. panel around the sagebrush to reduce predation on the young sagebrush plants. Since the location [...]

Native Plant Focus: Betula occidentalis, Water birch

Water Birch in the CSR Greenhouse. Water birch growing at the CSR Farm. Native Plant Focus: Betula occidentalis, Water birch Water birch or mountain birch is a 20-30 ft., multi-trunked tree with shiny, reddish-brown bark. Its delicate, graceful appearance is created by slender, spreading, pendulous branches. Shrub or small tree with rounded crown of spreading [...]

Overwintering Native Plants at the CSR Nursery

Rocky Mountain Native Plants, CSR’s Nursery Facility located in Rifle Colorado, has begun settling native plants in for the winter months ahead.

The Canyon Maple: Showy Autumn Foliage

(photo: Scott Catron) Canyon, or Bigtooth,  maple (Acer grandidentatum) is a shrubby or somewhat tree-like maple, this species usually matures at 10-15 ft. but is sometimes taller. Its bark is dark brown and scaly and is branches are stout and erect. The thickish, three- to five-lobed deciduous leaves turn bright red and gold in the [...]

CSR Celebrates GIS Day 2011

The CSR GIS Team visited a local 4th grade classroom this week in celebration of GIS Day 2011.  As with last year, students participated in an activity based on the building of an imaginary dam across the Snake River, highlighting both the anthropogenic benefits a dam provides and the environmental consequences of building a dam. [...]

Native Plant Windbreaks

Southern ID CSR Farm Facility

Owl’s claw Spreadingpod rockcress Sulphur-flower Buckwheat The Southern ID CSR  Farm facility entrance was made our own last week by the installation of native plants. Come spring 2012, this native plant bed will be welcoming birds, butterflies, and pollinators . This 15 acre farm, formerly Jaykers Nursery, was purchased by CSR in 2010. Native plants [...]

Installing Straw Wattles in WY

This P&A (plug & abandon) well site was seeded late October with a native seed mix. Due to recontouring of the road, straw wattles were installed to prevent erosion to the slope. Straw Wattles are woven mesh netting filled with straw or hay and sometimes seed mixes, used to trap sediment and promote infiltration. They [...]

112th Christmas Bird Count

Photo credit: Elaine R. Wilson, (Nature’s Pics) “From December 14 through January 5 tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the Americas take part in an adventure that has become a family tradition among generations. Families and students, birders and scientists, armed with binoculars, bird guides and checklists go out on an annual mission – often [...]