<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">There were 12 participants on the SOS Collectors’ Call today, April 4, 2017.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> 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: </span><a href="http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/sos_lists.plantconservation.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://lists.<wbr>plantconservation.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/sos_lists.<wbr>plantconservation.org</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> The SOS website (</span><a href="http://www.blm.gov/sos" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">www.blm.gov/sos</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">) 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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> 2016 Collection Summary:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">SOS Collection Goals: </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">General Rules:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px">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.<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Sample from at least 50 individuals, document the number of individuals sampled on the SOS Field Data Form<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">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<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">An ideal collection is 10,000-20,000 pure live seed<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Different populations should be kept as separate collections<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Materials collected from the same population during multiple growing seasons should be kept as separate accessions<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">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.<br></li></ul><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Seed:<br>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.<br><br>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.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div><br><br>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.<br><br>Data Portal:<br>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.<br><br>Photos:<br>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: <a href="https://seedsofsuccess.smugmug.com/" target="_blank">https://seedsofsuccess.<wbr>smugmug.com/</a><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>Herbaria:<br>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 <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">or paper clip </div>labels to sheets or send herbarium paper with your specimens.<br><br>If you have any questions about <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">hebarium </div>voucher specimens, contact Erika Gardner at the Smithsonian. Email: <a href="mailto:gardnere@si.edu" target="_blank">gardnere@si.edu</a> Phone: 202.633.0936<br><br> <br>The Next Call will be Tuesday, May 2nd<br>12 noon Eastern<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">1</div>1 am Central<br>10 am Mountain<br>9 am Pacific<br>8 am Alaska<br><br>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)</div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0c343d"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0c343d"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0c343d">Lindsey Riibe</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,52,61)"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Bureau of Land Management</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Plant Conservation Program Assistant</span><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#0c343d">l<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="mailto:riibe@blm.gov">riibe@blm.gov</a></div></font></div><div><font color="#0c343d">503-808-6230</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Plant Conservation Alliance</a><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" target="_blank">Seeds of Success</a></span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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