Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Prison Shares Earthworm Wealth with Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
Text and photos by Sadie Gilliom, current SPP Western Pond Turtle Program Coordinator and previous Northwest Trek employee Inside the three rows of razor wire, Monroe Correctional Complex houses more than…
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What do the students get from SPP lectures? Part One
Part One: Surveys Say…! Text by Joslyn Rose Trivett, SPP Education and Outreach Manager Figures by Liliana Caughman, SPP Science and Sustainability Lecture Series Coordinator Every SPP Science and Sustainability…
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Evergreen’s President for Climate Action
Higher Education Backs We Are Still In Coalition by Joslyn Rose Trivett, SPP Education & Outreach Manager Late last week, Evergreen’s President George Bridges joined hundreds of his colleagues nationwide in signing…
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New Turtles and New Technicians!
Text and photos by Western Pond Turtle Program Coordinator, Sadie Gilliom Cedar Creek and Larch Corrections Centers programs just received new turtles last week! These turtles just finished their treatments…
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What is an Aquatic Emergent Pre-Vegetated Mat?
By Amanda Mintz, Emergent Vegetation Ecological Conservation Nursery Coordinator, and Master of Environmental Studies student In SPP’s new Emergent Vegetation Ecological Conservation Nursery at Stafford Creek Corrections Center, we are…
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New Turtles Arrived!
Text and photos by Sadie Gilliom, SPP Western Pond Turtle Program Coordinator After a few months of waiting, Cedar Creek and Larch Corrections Centers have each received a new batch of…
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