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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING <br />West Eugene Wetlands Plant Materials Program <br />This Memorandum of Understanding ( "MOU") is entered into, by,, and between the City of Eugene, a <br />municipality of the State of Oregon (CITY), The Nature Conservancy, a District of Columbia non- <br />profit corporation (TNC), and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Eugene District (BLM). <br />Recitals: <br />* Agreement #01- MOU- WEW081020055 <br />CITY, TNC, and BLM have worked cooperatively on wetland restoration and management in west <br />Eugene since 1991. All are members of the West Eugene Wetlands Partnership and all are <br />signatories to the March 1994 Wetland Executive Team "Statement of Partnership" and the 1995 <br />Memorandum of Agreement for the Wetland Executive Team. <br />2. CITY, TNC, and BLM all own land within the West Eugene Wetlands complex. <br />3. CITY, TNC, and BLM all need plant materials (e.g., seeds, bulbs, and propagated plants) from a <br />wide variety of wetland and upland plants that are native to the West Eugene Wetlands area in <br />order to successfully enhance and restore their lands. <br />4. The Wetland Executive Team adopted a "Wetland Plant Supply Strategy" for the West Eugene <br />Wetlands in May, 1996. <br />5. CITY, TNC, and BLM have individually implemented many elements of the Wetland Plant Supply <br />Strategy since 1996. Specific tasks undertaken by the CITY, TNC, or BLM include: seed <br />collection, seed cleaning, seed mixing, executing contracts for seed, plug, and bulb grow -out, seed <br />database management, and experimenting with propagation techniques. <br />6. CITY produced, with assistance from BLM and TNC staff, a "West Eugene Wetlands Seed <br />Collection Manual" in May 2003. <br />7. BLM funded a consultant to produce, with assistance from BLM and TNC staff, the "West <br />Eugene /Southern Willamette Valley Restoration Seed Development Project. Phase 3 - 2002 <br />Survey of upland prairie and oak savanna sites within greater Eugene area and information <br />regarding native seed collection and propagation ". <br />8. In January, 2004, staff from the CITY, TNC, and BLM began the interagency SPROUTS (seeds, <br />plugs, rhizomes, or underground tubers) committee to develop and implement strategies to make <br />the West Eugene Wetland Wetlands Program plant materials program more ecologically effective <br />and economically efficient. <br />9. CITY, TNC, and BLM all have a need to obtain more species of seed, and a greater abundance of <br />each species, than has historically been available from each entity's individual efforts, which have <br />heavily relied on annual collection from remnant plant populations. <br />