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310 North 4th Street
Hamilton, Montana 59840
406.363.5410 x 116
406.363.4349 FAX
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Our Partner:
S&K Tribal Forestry Nursery
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Great Bear Restoration maintains a cooperative teaming agreement with S&K Tribal Forestry of Ronan, Montana. By working together, we are able to bring an additional 50,000 square feet of growing space, large-scale seed laboratory, and decades of experience in growing native seedlings to your project.
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Our Restoration Projects
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Great Bear Restoration provides native plants to a variety of restoration projects throughout the western United States. With our strong background in botany, ecology, reclamation, wildlife biology, and geology, we are the provider of choice for regulated projects. In addition, our focus on source-identified seed and close working relationship with landscape design firms makes us an indispensible partner on high profile restoration and landscaping projects.
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Milltown Dam Superfund Site Remediation
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Great Bear Restoration has been a primary plant provider and seed collector for the Milltown Dam Superfund Site Remediation project near Missoula, Montana. As part of our contract, we have collected, cleaned and stored seed for 49 species of willows, trees, and wetland grasses. Seed was grown out into TallOne pots for replanting at the site. All appropriate plant material was grown in our proprietary VAM-Grow growth media to promote higher survival and growth rates than traditional fertigated nursery seedlings. Over 11,800 TallOne pots, 10,000 10T conetainers and 590 singer plants have been grown from site-collected seed. In addition, 2200 linear feet of custom willow rolls for bank reinforcement have been produced and placed on the site.
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Grand Teton National Park
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Great Bear Restoration has been awarded multiple contracts with Grand Teton National Park to collect, clean, store and test seed as well as propagate a variety of species in containers ranging in size from Treebands to 15-gallon pots. GBR was also responsible for growing 1,600 containerized plants among 19 different species.
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Mined Land Reclamation
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Great Bear Restoration provides turn-key reclamation services for several mine reclamation managers in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. Great Bear provides planning assistance, seed collection, plant material, MSHA-approved installation crews, and monitoring to ensure that reclaimed sites meet the high standards required by state and federal agencies. Our projects have resulted in several technical papers at professional conferences. We apply our proprietary VAM-Grow growth media containing mycorrhizal fungi to all appropriate seedlings as a standard practice to promote survival and growth of seedlings. We are able to produce several rarely available or difficult to grow species such as Mountain Mahogany, Gambel’s Oak, Rocky Mountain Juniper, and Big Sagebrush for highly difficult sites.
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Wetland Mitigation & Creation
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GBR has worked with several clients across Montana, Idaho, and Colorado to delivery containerized seedlings for wetland and riparian restoration projects. To date GBR has delivered over 1.2-million seedlings of more than 20 species. Due to our excellent understanding of wetland seed biology, we can efficiently produce large quantities of plants from relatively small amounts of site-collected seed. We produce difficult to grow species, such as beaked sedge, on a consistent basis.
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Wildflower Production
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In 2009, we formed Great Bear Natives to cater specifically to the retail nursery and landscape industry. GBR recognized the lack of site-adapted wildflowers for clients throughout the Intermountain West. As a result, we have identified 30 species of wildflowers, and produced both liner stock and retail ready plant materials. We have successfully introduced the same high quality plants that provide for restoration projects to the home consumer through retailers. For a recent project, we collected seed and grew over 50 species of wildflowers and grasses for an environmentally sensitive landscaping project.
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