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| Oregon prison inmates work to save threatened silverspot butterfly |
| By oregonlive.com- Bryan Denson |
| Published: 06/18/2014 |
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To save the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly, some prison inmates are growing nearly 35,000 flowering violas to feed their larvae and improve the insect's chances on coastal grasslands in Tillamook County. Prisoners at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville planted viola seeds in tubes last fall, which were put in cold storage to acclimate them to Oregon's coastal climate. The plants, now in a prison greenhouse, are part of a habitat restoration project in a portion of the northern coast degraded by development. The viola is critical to the life of the silver spot, which grows from caterpillar into a pretty yellow butterfly with brown spots. And this is where the inmates come in, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections. Read More. |
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