Aberdeen Plant Materials Center

Aberdeen, Idaho

Established 1939

The Aberdeen Plant Materials Center (IDPMC) provides plant solutions for the diverse landscapes of the Intermountain West including areas of southern Idaho, northern Nevada, eastern Oregon, western Utah, and western Wyoming. The Center is located in the Snake River Plain in southeastern Idaho. Land use is diverse with native and seeded pasture, rangelands, irrigated farmland, non-irrigated cropland, mountain valleys, foothills, and forestlands. Increasingly, acreage is devoted to urbanization, recreational farms, wildlife habitat, wildlife refuges, hunting and fishing areas, and mining. Priorities for the Center include plant development, seed and plant production, improving degraded lands, conservation demonstrations, and technology transfer. The Center provides technical leadership for fighting invasive and noxious weeds, rehabilitation of lands following wildfire, buffer and windbreak development, propagation of native grasses, forbs and shrubs, and improvement of degraded lands.
The Aberdeen Plant Materials Center has developed 45 conservation plants including upland varieties of bluebunch wheatgrass, thickspike wheatgrass, basin wildrye, Indian ricegrass, western wheatgrass, fourwing saltbush, winterfat, penstemon, flax, small burnet, creeping spikerush, Baltic rush, threesquare and various bulrushes, and a number of introduced varieties of irrigated forages and drought tolerant species.

Contact

P.O. Box 296/ 1691 A South 2700 West
Aberdeen, ID 83210-0296

Telephone: 208.397.4133
FAX: 208.397.3104
Email: Loren.Stjohn@id.usda.gov

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