PPF Board of Directors 







President: Dave Skinner

Dave Skinner is the 5th generation of his family to live on the Palouse. His great-grandfather probably plowed out Palouse Prairie. Dave would like to restore part of it. Dave raised grain on the Palouse for a few years in the 1970's and ran an organic market garden for many years, selling at the Moscow Farmer's Market. His day job is working at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Materials Center, where he has worked with native grass seed since 1978. Since 1997 he has been working on a Palouse Prairie Restoration at the Plant Materials Center and has been an active member of the Palouse Prairie Foundation since its founding. He served as president of PPF for several years. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Pullman Community Gardens at Koppel Farm for the past 7 years. Dave would like to see the Palouse Prairie Foundation continue to encourage preservation of the little prairie that remains and work to restore more of the vanishing ecosystem.

Vice president: David Hall

David moved from Montana to Moscow with his parents and sisters just before first grade. He's been living in Latah County outside Moscow pretty much ever since, with the exception of his travels. He 'owns' 15 acres of native forestland, and tends a small patch of introduced native prairie plants. He is a board member of the Palouse Water Conservation Network and of a small independent drinking-water supply association in Bonner County. He is involved in native plant and groundwater issues.

Secretary: Joan Folwell

Joan moved to the Palouse in 1968 from the prairies of Illinois. She is trained as a zoologist and is an enthusiastic, but undisciplined and naive, gardener. Her husband and she recently purchased a piece of cultivated ground and are engaged in an effort to restore it to some semblance of Palouse Prairie. Over the last two years, PPF members have been inestimable resource for this project. She is committed to actively advocating preservation of existing prairie remnants and greater use of native plants for landscaping purposes.

Treasurer: Paul Warnick

Paul is the Horticulturist at the University of Idaho Arboretum. He is also a rare Moscow native, having been born and raised here. He came back to Moscow in 2000 to take the position at the Arboretum. Paul is especially interested in the idea of planting a Palouse Prairie restoration on part of the undeveloped space at the Arboretum, but he also strongly supports any efforts to preserve existing parcels and also exploring using more Palouse Prairie native plants in landscaping and ornamental gardening.

Member at large: Gerry Queener

B.S. Forestry UI 1969, MAT (Science) UI 1971. Taught high school science for 25 years. Special interests are gardening, native plants, streams and wetlands. Has lived on the Palouse since 1964. Owns a small remnant of Palouse Prairie.