Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
SPP Manager Carl Elliott Receives Restorationist of the Year Award!
by SPP Co-Director Kelli Bush Sustainability in Prisons Project’s (SPP) Ecological Conservation Nursery Manager, Carl Elliott has been awarded the Society for Ecological Restoration Northwest Chapter’s (SERNW) Restorationist of the Year Award…
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Busy as a Bee at WSP
By Bethany Shepler, SPP Green Track Coordinator Amid the razor wire and blocky buildings of the Washington State Penitentiary, you might be surprised to see beautiful blooming flowers and thousands…
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Bright colors speak loudly for the hard work being done at Stafford Creek!
Photos and text by Joey Burgess, SPP Ecological Conservation Nursery Coordinator for Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCCC) For nursery technicians, much of the year is spent inside greenhouses where they…
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Sagebrush in Prisons
By Stacy Moore, Institute for Applied Ecology Program Director, Ecological Education, and Joslyn Rose Trivett, SPP Education and Outreach Manager “For the first time in my life I’m actually doing…
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Butterfly conservation takes flight in Oregon prison
Text by Ronda Naseth, Oregon Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly Program Coordinator, Oregon Zoo Photos by Tom Kaye, Institute for Applied Ecology, and Chad Naugle, Oregon Department of Corrections The excitement generated by the…
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What growing sagebrush means to me
By Toby Jones, an incarcerated technician in the Sagebrush in Prisons Project at Warner Creek Correctional Facility in Lakeview, Oregon. Thank you to Institute for Applied Ecology for sharing this piece…
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