Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Washington State Monarchs Going the Distance
Just like many of us head south to escape the cold dark winters of the Northwest, so do butterflies! The Pacific Northwest Monarch butterfly population is thought to overwinter in…
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The Butterflies Get Their Own Computer
By SPP Taylor’s checkerspot program coordinator Lindsey Hamilton At Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW) four inmate technicians raise Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies as a contribution to the recovery of…
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Fire in the Demonstration Garden
Last month, as part of the ongoing cultivation of the demonstration prairie garden at Shotwell’s Landing nursery, the inmate prairie restoration crew got to burn an area for seeding with…
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Collaboration at Shotwell’s Landing Nursery
By Jaal Mann, Graduate Research Assistant This past week Shotwell’s Landing hosted visitors from the USFWS, Dr. Karla Drewson and Ted Thomas, and David Hays from WDFW. They admired the…
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Washington Corrections Center for Women Celebrates its SPP programs
by Bri Morningred, SPP Graduate Research Assistant and SPP Coordinator for Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) conservation nursery photos by Shauna Bittle It was a beautiful day in Gig…
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CONFOR West
By Dennis Aubrey, Brittany Gallagher, and Andrea Martin In late April three SPP Graduate Research Assistants attended CONFOR West, an annual conference in Western Canada highlighting environmental science, forestry, and…
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