Specifications include, but are not limited to: The contractor must work with the UDWR to develop a study design that will remove environmental bias and consider how 15 different variables affect seedling survival (e.g. seed source, age of the plant, container size, soil moisture, etc.). This contract has been changed so that the UDWR will plant all of the plants, but the contractor must work with UDWR to develop a planting design. We need the contractor to help design a layout for planting that will remove site-specific environmental bias from the results. The DWR will then do all of the labor required to do a spring 2024 planting of 1,800 plants and a fall 2024 planting of 3,640 plants for a total of 5,440 plants at Wallsburg WMA and Santaquin WMA. The contractor will need to come up with a labeling system to keep track of what plants are planted where and when they are planted and provide that to the DWR to install. The contractor must collect survival and pull soil moisture data from previously installed soil moisture data loggers on the 1,800 seedlings that are planted in March of 2024 in June and then once again in October of 2024. So a total of 2 data collection trips in 2024. Online access to the soil moisture data loggers will be provided to the contractor. The contractor also needs to collect survival and soil moisture data on 4,000 sagebrush seedlings that were planted previously once in June and October 2024 at the Wallsburg, Santaquin, Stansbury’s, and Dairy Fork locations identified above. This will be a total of 2 data collections at each of those 4 sites, but two of these sites are the same as above. So only two extra trips to visit.
