Invasive Plant Focus: Russian-Thistle, Salsola tragus

Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org Photo: Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, Bugwood.org Russian thistle, Salsola tragus, also known as tumbleweed, is in the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae). Its scientific name is Salsola tragus, but it also has been known as Salsola iberica, Salsola kali, and Salsola australis. It is a summer annual native to [...]

Time Again for CSR Inc’s Annual Spring Job Fair!

Photo from a native seeding project after the Big Hill Fire, located 35 miles south of Bruneau, Idaho in the Owyhee desert. Are you interested in joining the dedicated CSR Team on our mission to help “Restore the Planet, one Native Plant at a Time”? Come visit us at our upcoming Spring Job Fairs! Click [...]

National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2012, Focus on Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)

Cheatgrass: photo credit February 26th through March 3rd is National Invasive Species Awareness Week, 2012! To answer the question, “What is an invasive species?”.  Invasive species are, according to ISDA, “harmful, non-native plants, animals, and pathogens that damage our economy and environment. They include species like white pine blister rust, zebra mussels, Asian gypsy moth, [...]

The Beauty of Pollination

Meeting of the INPS Loasa Chapter

The Loasa Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society is meeting this evening, February 16th 2012, 7pm in room #276 of the Taylor Building on the College of Southern Idaho campus in Twin Falls, Idaho. The speaker topic for the meeting is ‘Butterfly-Plant Interactions in the South Hills‘. CSR folks look forward to seeing you [...]

Convergent Ladybugs, Hippodamia convergens

Ladybugs reproduce sexually. Each species of ladybug has its own pheromones for attracting a mate. When they find each other, the male grips the female from behind and holds on tight. They can copulate (stay together) for more than 2 hours at a time. Female ladybugs can store a male’s sperm for 2-3 months before [...]

Career Opportunities at CSR

The CSR Ruby Pipeline Restoration Crew, pictured here at the beginning of the fall 2011 upland planting project in UT and WY. We currently have the following full-time and part-time career opportunities available at our Kimberly Idaho headquarters, Filer Idaho nursery, Rock Springs Wyoming location, Vernal Utah location, and Rifle Colorado nursery. We are always [...]

Freshwater Western Ridged Mussel, Gonidea angulata

(photo credit: North West Food News) “Love is in the air” -Shared from The Nature Conservancy “Male mussels release sperm into the water, which females capture downstream. Larvae hatch inside the females’ shells but must then attach to a fish to grow. To lure fish, mother mussels wave appendages that look like worms, crayfish or [...]

CSR at the 2012 ProGreen Expo, Colorado

Today marks the last day of the 2012 ProGreen Expo in Denver, Colorado. You can find CSR at booth #406 ~ just look for the balloons!

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in Southeast Idaho

“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.” -Theodore Roosevelt, 1912