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Salmon River Restoration Council, Plants Program

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May 13th, 2025

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Jenell “Jay” Jackson

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Program Overview

Invasive Weed Treatment

Seed and Materials Collection

Native Plant Survey and Monitoring

Meadows

Community Outreach

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Manager: Jenell “Jay” Jackson

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Program Coordinator: Mic Oneil

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Plants technicians: Irie Swift, Todd Whitmore, and Cass Bowman

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Invasive Species

Surveyed 744 acres, treated 232 acres, and pulled over 54,000 plants in 2024

Got lots of help from partners, especially MKWC and Pirish Plants

Some of the target species on the Salmon include:

    • Dyer’s woad
    • Sulphur cinquefoil
    • Italian thistle
    • Spotted knapweed
    • Puncture vine
    • Tree of heaven
    • Oblong spurge

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Invasive Species

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Native Plants: Seed and Materials Collection

  • Work closely with WKRP Partners to develop ethical seed collection and dispersal practices
  • Supports the Fire & Fuels and Habitat Restoration Programs
  • Revegetation for:
    • Instream restoration
    • Post pile burning and broadcast burning treatments
  • Commonly collected species:
    • Blue wild rye
    • California fescue
    • Milkweed
    • Western fescue

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Native Plants: Survey and Monitoring

  • Rare Plant and Sensitive Natural Communities Surveys to satisfy NEPA/CEQA compliance
    • Just over 1000 acres surveyed in 2024, 176 of them surveyed in with partners
  • Monitoring survival and vigor of revegetation projects
  • Monitor effects of fire and fuels treatments and rare species

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Native Plants: Meadows

  • Multi-disciplined project which has brings together folks from the plant, fisheries, and habitat restoration worlds
  • All of these groups come together to collaborate on meadows restoration projects
  • Pilot Project: Haypress-Stanshaw Meadows
    • Assessments of the meadows by SRRC, KDNR, and MKWC staff in the summer of 2024
      • Surveyed roughly 530 acres
    • Multi-disciplined project with contributors from MKWC, KDNR, and Six River NF

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Community

  • Hosted 9 number of community weeding and clean up days
  • Accompanied SRRC’s Watershed Education Program Coordinator to Watershed Ed days at Junction Elementary
  • Started Botany and Brews series in the late summer of 2024.
    • Continued this year with an additional four events

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Technical Support

Data housed at Karuk DNR

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Our databases are built collaboratively

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Many thanks to Jud Fisher, Chris Root, Tanya Chapple, Heather Rickard, and Will Bruce

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Thank you!