Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
My First Few Months at SPP
Text by Bethany Shepler, SPP Green Track Coordinator When I first heard about a job opening at the Sustainability in Prisons Project, I couldn’t believe there was a group that…
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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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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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Making the difference to wildlife and inmates on the England and Wales Prison and Probation Service Estate
By Dr Phil Thomas PhD. FRSA. FIIEG. MCIEEM, Ecology Lead for the UK Ministry of Justice Estates Cluster I often ask myself the question: will the habitats and amazing native…
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Bees at MCCCW – Photo Gallery
Photos and text by Emily Passarelli, SPP Green Track Coordinator A special congratulations to Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women! This past Wednesday, they received two live hives donated with…
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SPP, Allies, and Friends: Thank you and goodbye!
Text by Liliana Caughman, outgoing SPP Workshop Coordinator Photos by Mark Sherwood and Kelly Peterson at SCCC It is strange how the past two years have flown by and…
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