Refuge Biologists provided a fact sheet about Nelson's checker-mallow to each of the volunteers from the Casino and provided instruction on how to properly transplant the seedlings. Then, the Spirit Mountain Casino volunteers joined with staff from the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex and began transplanting 640 seedlings into habitat along the northwestern edge of Moffitti Marsh. Within two hours, the combined crew of volunteers and Refuge staff had completed the transplanting. After eating lunch at the Refuge Office, the Casino shuttle bus that they had arrived in transported the volunteers back to the Casino.

During the last few years, the native plant division of Heritage Seedlings Inc. of Salem, OR developed procedures to grow, from seeds, Nelson's checker-mallow plants for restoration and listed species recovery efforts. The seedlings planted during this project were procurred via funding from a Cooperative Conservation Initiative project funded in FY04: Restoration of Willamette Valley Prairie Habitat for Recovery of Listed Species.