Wind River Seed

Welcome to the new
Wind River Seed Catalog

We hope it will prove to be a valuable tool in your reclamation success.

Your success is our success. We will make every effort to insure you receive the most knowledgeable and efficient service possible. Inside you will find several lists of our most common species and varieties. Our seed is high quality, and our conscientious staff will inform you of market forces which determine fluctuations in pricing and availability.

Wind River Seed is a premier company with high standards for quality of product and service. We look forward to serving your reclamation needs.

Why Use Native Species?

The use of natives is desirable in most dryland reclamation settings for a number of reasons. In the arid West a number of conditions exist which cause introduced varieties to fail. The frequency of extreme drought, duration of extreme drought and the high frequency of moderate drought render most tame pasture grasses such as orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass and bromegrass very risky solutions to long term problems. Reclamation planners must consider drought to be a virtual certainty when assessing adapted species.

There are some introduced varieties such as crested or Siberian wheatgrass which are drought tolerant but which are often unacceptable for other reasons. Ability to tolerate competition with a diverse community is a major drawback to these super aggressive species. Crested wheatgrass will drive out competing species and create monoculture reclamation. Any mono-culture is then vulnerable to environmental stress which could destroy an entire reclamation effort due to disease or other stress.