[SOS-PCA] Notes: SOS Collectors' Call 4/4/2017

Tue Apr 4 20:11:45 CDT 2017

There were 12 participants on the SOS Collectors’ Call today, April 4, 2017.

 The SOS email listserv and monthly collectors’ calls are the main venue
for communication from the National Coordinating Office to folks in the
field. Please encourage all interns, partners, collectors and managers to
sign up for the SOS list and to participate in the Collectors’ Calls.
Please share the link with anyone who may need to subscribe: http://lists.
plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/sos_lists.plantconservation.org

 The SOS website (www.blm.gov/sos) is the primary resource for SOS. You can
find the Technical Protocol and all required forms, including the SOS
datasheet, clearance form, annual report template, herbarium guidance and
other items. A link to the web-based data portal and user guide for data
entry will be added to the website soon.

 2016 Collection Summary:
1,948 accessions entered into BGBase as of 4/4/2017 – but this will likely
increase to approximately 2,200 once all data is entered. There were 45
Collecting Teams and 820 unique taxa were collected representing 382 genera
and 83 families represented in 2016 collections.

SOS Collection Goals:
The goal of SOS is to establish high quality, accurately identified,
genetically representative and well-documented native plant seed
collections. This material will be used to support the development of
geographically appropriate native plant materials for restoration and
emergency fire rehabilitation, as well as long-term conservation storage.

General Rules:

   - Only collect from wild populations of native species – Be aware of
   past seedings for restoration or rehabilitation. Also, be aware of
   cultivars such as flax or yarrow in your area.
   - Sample from at least 50 individuals, document the number of
   individuals sampled on the SOS Field Data Form
   - Material collected on multiple dates can be added to the same
   accession throughout an entire growing season, so long as no more than 20%
   of the ripe seed is collected from the population on a single day
   - An ideal collection is 10,000-20,000 pure live seed
   - Different populations should be kept as separate collections
   - Materials collected from the same population during multiple growing
   seasons should be kept as separate accessions
   - SOS Technical Protocol—SOS guidelines recommend collections to contain
   a minimum of 10,000 pure live seed.  If you know that seed will need to be
   returned to your office, collect >10,000 seed so there is a balance after
   the contribution to ARS is made. Smaller collections (<6,000 PLS) may go
   entirely in to ARS long-term storage & none will be available for Research
   & Development. If collection is <2,500 PLS, seed will be offered back to
   the original collector unless they are not otherwise represented in the SOS
   National Collection.

Seed:
All BLM offices send their seed collections to the Bend Seed Extractory for
cleaning. Please contact Bend to let them know a shipment is coming. Label
the outside of seed bags with the seed collection reference number (Your
office’s collector code and collection number) and the species name. If
there are multiple bags of a single collection, label bags 1 of 3, 2 of 3,
3 of 3, etc.

Non-BLM collection teams cleaning their own seed should send seed directly
to Mike Cashman at the Western Regional Plant Introduction Station in
Pullman, WA as soon as it is ready.

Each seed collection needs to have good, complete data associated with it.
The data must be recorded on SOS Data Sheets (available on the SOS
website). Include a printed Data Sheet for each seed collection shipped to
Bend (or to ARS in Pullman). Additionally, Data sheets should be submitted
via email or google drive to the National Coordinating Office.

Data Portal:
Every collecting team is required to enter their own data. This is
something you can do throughout the season as you make your collections.
Please contact me by email if your collecting team needs a user name and
password or if you need training on how to use the data portal.
Additionally, if your collecting team still has 2016 data that needs to be
entered in the data portal, please communicate this with me via email.

Photos:
Each seed collection should have 3 photos associated with it – the plant,
the seed, and the habitat/landscape of that population. Photos should be
submitted via google Drive or email to the national office. These photos
are shared with you and the public via smugmug: https://seedsofsuccess.
smugmug.com/

Herbaria:
Voucher specimens are to be sent to the Smithsonian U.S. National
Herbarium, a regional herbarium and local herbarium (collecting office).
There are basic voucher preparation techniques available on the SOS
website. Please be sure you collect a full specimen – root, shoot and
flower for forbs and grasses. For species that will not be in flower at
time of seed collection, take a voucher specimen during a preliminary trip
to the population. If submitting vouchers collected on different days (one
in flower, one in fruit) each specimen needs its own label and associated
collection number.  Specimens collected on the same day will be the same
herbarium specimen with one label. When shipping specimens to the
Smithsonian you can fit 25 – 50 specimens in one bundle between cardboards.
Do NOT staple
or paper clip 
labels to sheets or send herbarium paper with your specimens.

If you have any questions about
hebarium 
voucher specimens, contact Erika Gardner at the Smithsonian. Email:
gardnere at si.edu  Phone: 202.633.0936

The Next Call will be Tuesday, May 2nd
12 noon Eastern
1
1 am Central
10 am Mountain
9 am Pacific
8 am Alaska

Please contact me if you need the call-in number (NOTE: the call-in number
is different than the number used for the webinar on March 7th)

Lindsey Riibe
Bureau of Land Management
Plant Conservation Program Assistant
l
riibe at blm.gov
503-808-6230

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy>
Plant Conservation Alliance <http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/>
Seeds of Success
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection>
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