EWU aims to restore Palouse Prairie ecosystem by replanting native species of plants

EWU aims to restore the Palouse Prairie ecosystem by replanting native species of plants.

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Mon., April 26, 2021

Kristy Snyder, left, an EWU master’s student studying Palouse prairie restoration, Erik Budsberg, a sustainability coordinator and project manager, Sarah Hill, a former EWU student who recently completed her master’s on prairie restoration needs and assessment and arrowleaf balsamroot seeding establishment, and Dr. Justin Bastow, an EWU professor studying soil and soil food webs, check out EWU’s Seed Increase Garden, which is designed to help produce seeds from native Palouse plants on April 23 in Cheney.

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Sarah Hill, a former EWU student who recently completed her masters on prairie restoration needs and assessment and arrowleaf balsamroot seeding establishment; checks out- Lomatium dissectum - commonly known by the name fernleaf biscuitroot - at EWU's Seed Increase Garden, which is designed to help produce seeds from native Palouse plants on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Cheney, Wash.

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Erik Budsberg, a sustainability coordinator and project manager points across roughly 120 acres of Palouse prairie adjacent to the university that's been used historically as farmland but EWU hopes to restore to native Palouse prairie on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Cheney, Wash.

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Sarah Hill, a former EWU student who recently completed her masters on prairie restoration needs and assessment and arrowleaf balsamroot seeding establishment; shows off EWU's Seed Increase Garden, which is designed to help produce seeds from native Palouse plants on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Cheney, Wash.

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Dr. Justin Bastow, an EWU professor studying soil and soil food webs shows off a handful of Biochar which EWU is researching to determine its effectiveness in growing native Palouse plants on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Cheney, Wash.

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