Calgary, Alberta, Native Plant Producer, Eastern Slopes Rangeland Seeds
Ltd have been reclamation consultants and contract growers of rangeland
native plants and seeds since 1980. During that time ESRS has become a
major player in the successful re-establishment of delicate plant communities.
Learn about reclamation.
ESRS is a family owned business run by Steven and Clare Tannas, who
are rangeland agronomists and Kathy Tannas, who is a plant taxonomist
and published author of a series of books on plant identification.
Learn more about us.
ESRS is a corporate entity that promotes the conservation and management
of native plant communities in western Canada by providing expert management
advice from our diverse experience, high quality environmental surveys
and quality products for the environment.
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Our business is deigned to serve the reclamation industry, provincial
and federal governments, the oil industry, mining industry, municipalities,
golf courses, wholesale garden centres and anyone requiring environmental
assessments or large scale native plant and seed production capabilities.
Because each situation poses different challenges it is very important
to obtain a professional consultant's pre-site assessment of the considerations
that need to be addressed for optimum success.
Here at ESRS we have three consultants on staff who can identify both
rare and common species, advise on the best production and planting
techniques we can also harvest rare species from the wild when necessary.
We can also advise on the impact of factors like erosion and wildlife
grazing on reclamation recovery times.
Learn more about our many consulting services.
Our very comprehensive environmental assessments are designed to determine
the condition of native plant communities and make recommendations on
the most cost effective way to reclaim tracts of land that have been
disturbed by industry or overgrazing. Please use the drop-down menu
at the top of the page to review our services.
Please direct consulting enquiries to Consulting@easternslopesrangelandseeds.com
or Call us at 1-403-637-2473
We do far more than just suggest viable solutions. Since 1985 we have
harvested and reproduced hundreds of rangeland native plants and seeds
and reproduced them in our greenhouse and our 180 acres of production
beds. Lists of some of the species we produce can be found here: Grasses,
Shrubs, Forbs.
Many rangeland plant communities contain species that are very slow
to reproduce. When you see a healthy rangeland ecosystem it has often
taken hundreds of years to reach that state. Therefore, after a major
disturbance such as road construction, oil exploration or pipeline construction
successful recovery can be a major challenge.
Re-introducing native species into a severely disturbed ecosystem can
often prove to be very difficult. After many years of reclamation management,
seed production and scientific experimentation we have proved that significant
benefits can be obtained using plugs rather than seeds. Therefore, plugs
form a significant part of our production. We identify on this website
which species we recommend you purchase as plugs. Visit our Production
Page for more information.
Please direct production enquiries to Greenhouse@easternslopesrangelandseeds.com
or Call us at 1-403-637-2473