Restoring Nature; Rehabbing People (Butterflies, Frogs...)

[cynthia_h]

Inspiring, encouraging article about prisoners in Washington State working to help Nature and scientists with (and these are only the species mentioned in the short article):

--Taylor's checkerspot butterflies
--golden paintbrush (a prairie plant)
--"other" prairie plants (names not provided)
--Oregon spotted frogs

Wider topics in the inmates' environmental education include:

--water quality
--reducing trash volume through composting
--gathering and organizing scientific data
--innovation in techniques to help the species (e.g., one woman developed a technique to assist butterflies in feeding)

We need more of these programs.

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9