<div dir="ltr"><div><p class=""><b>SOS Collectors' Call Notes</b></p><p class=""><b>June 9, 2015</b></p><p class="">There were 15 participants on the call (many folks were in training this week).</p><p class=""><b>Bend Update</b> –
Seed year 2014: About 200 lots left to clean, more than 1800lbs of raw material
that was collected through SOS. Collect more than you think you might need.
Sarah has put together some bullet point for things for folks to remember when
they are in the field re: labelling, shipping, taping, etc. Tested on OR
interns and received positively. Seed collections for 2015 are beginning to
arrive. Crew starting in July.</p>
<p class=""><b>Update from Megan</b>
– We are busy here in DC working on incorporating the comments on the National
Seed Strategy. The SOS East training session in Chapel Hill was a great success,
as was the Conservation and Land Management training in Chicago! It was great
to meet all of the collectors for the 2015 season.</p>
<p class=""><b>Don’t forget to
send data sheets as they are collected</b> so they can be entered into the
national database throughout the season.</p>
<p class=""><b>Call for favorite
apps and/or web resources</b> – Please let me know about your go-to websites
and apps that assist with SOS data collection. These could help with soils,
geology, plant community type or something else. I will be compiling these and
adding them to the SOS webpage.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>Reminder that
populus and salix collections are not good for SOS</b> due to their rapid
loss of viability.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>Assisting NRCS PMCs
with plant material:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>Panicum obtusum
collections from NM, AZ, southern CO, southern UT, west TX</b> - The ARS Plant
Materials Center in Los Lunas, NM is hoping that SOS collectors may be able to
provide some collections of vine mesquite for common garden studies.<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Please also keep an
eye out for </b></span><b>Tripsacum
lancelolatum</b>,
Mexican gamagrass, and report back to me if you find populations. NRCS PMC may try
to reintroduce the species into riparian areas in southwest NM. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>July
7 – next call</b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Megan Haidet<div>Seeds of Success<br><div>National Collection Curator</div><div>Seeds of Success</div><div>202-912-7233</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.blm.gov/sos" target="_blank">www.blm.gov/sos</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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