Ruby Pipeline Restoration Project 2011

In 2011, the CSR Ruby Team installed approximately 170,000 native plants in Wyoming and Utah. Stage two of the Ruby Pipeline restoration project begins this week with orientation and new hire training. 150,000 native plants are scheduled to be installed in Nevada and Oregon. These include: sage, bitterbrush and mountain mahogany.

Ruby Pipeline Right of Way Restoration: Little Bear River, Lime Kiln Drainage

Two separate revegetation plans were completed fall 2011 as an addition to the large-scale Ruby Pipeline Right of Way Restoration. The East Fork of the Little Bear River Wildlife Management Area, located approximately 2 miles east of Avon, UT, was comprised of three different vegetation types: riparian/wetland shrub, meadow, and woodland. The riparian/wetland area was [...]

Solid and Liquid Amendment Application in UT

This CSR project is located in the Uintah Basin south of Vernal, Utah. CSR spread solid amendments at 1200 lbs per acres of a sulfur/gypsum mix. Living Earth LLC also applied a liquid soil amendment. Once amendments were applied, the CSR Team “disked” them into the soil and then seeded with a native seed mix. [...]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Fall 2011

The Green River as it winds through the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is located 30 miles southwest of Vernal in northeastern Utah. It consists of 11, 987 acres including 12 miles of the Green River. Antelope at the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge with the Green River flood plain in the background. Transect tape [...]

CSR Awarded Contract to Seed Big Hill Fire Area

CSR was recently awarded the Big Hill drill seeding contract, applying native seeds over 15,000 acres of the Big Hill Fire area. This post-fire restoration project is located south of the Bruneau Dunes in Idaho and will be completed this fall.

Native Grasses Take Hold

First year grasses at a restoration site. Native seed rows that are holding space. The more water, light, space and nutrients a native grass can use equals the less available for undesirable weeds.

Restoration with Native Seed

This field is progressing nicely in its native restoration. Conservation Seeding and Restoration Inc seeded a native grass mix and has conducted chemical applications to control annual weeds such as blue mustard and kochia. While there are still plenty of cheatgrass, the Great Basin Wildrye is established and will continue to spread over time as [...]

Truax Trillion Seeders

CSR’s new Truax Trillion Seeders have arrived! This seeder plants turf grasses, wildflowers or forbs, native grasses, legumes and cover crops.

In the Field, CSR Construction Team

CSR Construction Team recently applied native seed, tackifier and erosion control material to a natural gas field located south of Pinedale, WY.

Residential Landscape Installation

…traditional landscape before… …installation of “Nativescape”… …native grass seed and plants installed…