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| Prison inmates help with butterfly restoration project |
| By portlandtribune.com |
| Published: 12/04/2013 |
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It’s not often that those sentenced to long prison terms have a chance to help restore a threatened wildlife species. But these days the federally listed Oregon silverspot butterfly is getting a helping hand from inmates at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Thanks to the Oregon Sustainability in Prisons Project, a select group of inmates from the state’s only women’s prison recently planted more than 50,000 viola adunca, a species of violet, as part of a project that will eventually install thousands of host plants for butterflies at four restoration sites in Oregon. Read More. |
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