Newsletter of the Palouse Prairie Foundation

Fall 2023

• The Fascinating History of Whelan Cemetery
• Palouse Prairie Round-Table Talk
• Biological Control Agents
• Palouse Prairie Mini-Grant Overview

Summer 2023

• Plant Pollinator Interactions
• Weeding at Whelan
• Crock Update
• Palouse Plant Kits Sold

Spring 2023

• Palouse Prairie Pollinator Plant Kits Ð reserve your kit now!
• Palouse Prairie Pioneers: Meet Dave Skinner
• Featured Weed: Rush Skeletonweed
• New UI Student Group: Society for Ecological Restoration

Winter 2022-2023

• Change of the Guard
• Native Seed Production on the Palouse: From Thorn Creek to Rose Creek
• Meet the 2023 Board of Directors
• Are You Eligible for a Mini-Grant?

Fall 2022

• Reconstructing Palouse Prairie: One family’s attempt
• Fall Weed Control: Russian Thistle and Canadian Marestail
  
• Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse

Spring 2022

• What’s Happening at the John Crock Pollinator Garden
  
• Controlling Houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale)
  
• Weedy Annual Grasses in the Palouse Prairie
  
• Dogwood Creek Palouse Native Plant Farm
  

Winter 2021–2022

• Controlling Reed Canary Grass—Restoring Dogwood Creek
  
• April Is Native Plant Month
  
• Meet the 2022 Board of Directors
  
• Are You Eligible for a Mini-Grant?
  

Summer and Fall 2021

• Bryonia alba on the Palouse
  
• Fourth Annual Whelan Cemetery Weeding Party
  
• Summer at the John Crock Pollinator Garden
  

Spring 2021

• Planting Native Plants for Pollinators: A Win-Win-Win
  
• Soil Sampling of Palouse Prairie
  
• Look Out for Poison Hemlock
  

Winter 2020–2021

• Whelan Cemetery 8,000 Pounds Lighter
  
• Update on Steptoe Butte Preserve Purchase
  
• 2020 Research
  
• 2021 Board Election Results
  
• AGMP Donations to PPF
  
• Mini-Grant Highlight: Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center
  
• Join Palouse Prairie Foundation
  

Fall 2020

• Saying Goodbye to a Restoration Pioneer
  
• Lilacs Flagged for Removal at Whelan Cemetery
  
• Summer’s End at the John Crock Pollinator Garden
  
• Support PPF at Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
  
• Notice of Annual Meeting
  
• Are You Eligible for a Mini-Grant?
  
• 2021 Membership Letter
  

Summer 2020

• New Plants Added to Whelan Cemetery Plant Lists
  
• What’s Happening at Whelan Cemetery
  
• Update on the John Crock Native Pollinator Garden
  
• Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center Mini-Grant Awarded
  
• How to Apply for a PPF Mini-Grant

Fall 2019

• Pam Brunsfeld, The Wonderful World of Penstemons, the Beardstongues
  
• Potential Palouse Prairie Maps
  
• Steptoe Butte Prairie Reserve Funded
  
• Cell Towers in the Prairie
  
• Whelan Community Day
  
• PPF Mini-grant
  

Winter 2018

• Whelan fencing, weeding
  
• Solitary Bee Box Workshop
  
• Presentations:
  • David Benscoter, Steptoe Butte Preserve Heritage Apples
  • Gretchen Freed, Growing Camas: Its Growth Cycle, the Fungi That Associate with its Root System, and the Proper Techniques for its Restoration
  • Tanya Cheeke, Mycorrhyzal Fungus Transplants Can Help Restore Prairies
    
• 2018 Annual Meeting
  
• Election results
  
• Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
  
• Matthew Dolkas book Finding the Palouse Prairie: Images of a Vanishing Grassland
  
• PPF Mini-grant
  

Winter 2017

• Bald Butte Cell Tower proposal
  
• 2017 Annual Meeting
  
• Election results
  
• Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
  
• PPF Mini-grants
  
• Upcoming Event
  
• Membership Form
  

Autumn 2017

• John Crock Native Palouse Prairie Pollinator Garden
  
• Steptoe Butte Reserve Field Trip
  
• Upcoming Events & Notices
  
• Membership Form
  

Summer 2017

• Dedication of David Skinner Ecological Preserve (Palouse Land Trust)
  
• Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveys in Whitman County
  
• Grass Identification Workshop
  
• Weeding at Whelan Cemetery
  

Spring 2017

• Steptoe Butte Update
  
• Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveys in Whitman County
  
• Minigrant Spotlight: Moscow High School native planting
  
• How Will “VSP” Protect Palouse Prairie Remnants?
  
• Upcoming Events & Notices
  

Winter 2016

• Steptoe Butte Palouse Prairie Preserve
  
• New Palouse Prairie Ecological Preserve on Paradise Ridge
  
• John Crock Native Palouse Prairie Pollinator Garden
  
• Sy Montgomery and the Giant Palouse Earthworm
  
• Upcoming Events & Notices
  
• Miscellanea and Membership Form
  

Fall 2016

• Field Identification of the Giant Palouse Earthworm
  
• Evidence for Bombus occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Populations in the Olympic Peninsula, the Palouse Prairie, and Forests of Northern Idaho.
  
• Bumble bee fauna of Palouse Prairie: Survey of native bee pollinators in a fragmented ecosystem
  
• Minigrants awarded
  
• Upcoming events
  

Winter 2015

• Survey of macromoths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of a Palouse prairie remnant site in eastern Washington State
  
• Whitman County Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveying: Summer 2015
  
• 2015 Annual Meeting and Party
  
• Board of Directors Election
  
• Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse results
  

Summer and Fall 2015

• Upcoming Program: James Riser, Palouse Conservation District, Results of thie Season's Survey of Palouse Prairie Remnants in Whitman County
  
• Annual Meeting and Social
  
• Board of Directors Election
  
• U.S. 95 Realignment Update
  
• Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
  

Spring 2015

• John Edward Crock
  
• PPF receives Moscow Earth Day Award
  
• Upcoming Program: Lori Carris, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Plant Pathology, WSU, Uncovering the Secrets of Morel Mushrooms
  
• Native seed and plant sources
  
• PPF T-shirts
  
• Meeting Schedule
  
• Miscellanea and Membership Form
  

Winter 2014

• Featured Plant: Erythronium grandiflorum
  
• U.S.Highway 95 Thorn Creek Update
  
• Minigrants Awarded
  
• Recent Publications
  
• Upcoming Programs
  
• Annual Meeting and Party
  
• Meeting Schedule
  
• Miscellanea and Membership
  

Winter 2012 – 5(2)

• Featured Plant: Asclepias speciosa
  
• Pollinators and Pollinator Watch
  
• US 95 update
  
• PPF Note cards available
  
• Links to the PPF website
  
• Miscellanea
  

Summer 2012 – 5(1)

• Featured Plant: little sunflower, Helianthella uniflora
• Native Pollinator Plants for the Palouse, Pamela Pavek, Conservation Agronomist, USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center
• New Publications
  • Pavek, P.L.S., and D.M. Skinner. 2012. Plant Guide for Taper-leaved Penstemon (Penstemon attenuatus). USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Pullman Plant Materials Center. Pullman, WA.
  • Looney, Chris, and Sanford Eigenbrode. 2012. Characteristics and Distribution of Palouse Prairie Remnants: Implications for Conservation Planning. Natural Areas Journal 32:75-85.
• Miscellanea

Winter 2011/2012 – 4(4)

• Featured Plant: serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia
  
• Election
  
• New Publication: Finding the Palouse Prairie: Images of a Vanishing Grassland
  
• Summary of Insect Bibliography posted
  
• Upcoming Events
  
• PPF Membership
  
• Mini-grants awarded
  
• Miscellanea
  

Fall 2011 – 4(3)

• Featured Plant: Douglas? or black hawthorn, Crataegus douglasii
  
• Obituary: George B. Hatley
  
• Giant Palouse Earthworm
  
• Palouse Plant Database
  
• Palouse Restoration Roundtable
  
• Overwintering plants
  
• New Publication: Evaluating Restoration Methods Across a Range of Plant Communities Dominated by Invasive Annual Grasses to Native Perennial Grasses
  
• Symposium on Dryland Organic Farming
  

March & June 2011 – 4(1 & 2)

• Featured Plant: Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana
  
• Palouse Plant Database
  
• Pulled from the vials: Bumble bees of Palouse Prairie
  
• Palouse Wind Farm
  

December 2010 – 3(4)

• Featured Plant: Pyrrocoma liatriformis, Palouse goldenweed
  
• Palouse Wind Farm
  
• PPF Membership drive
  

September 2010 – 3(3)

• Featured Plant: Aster jessicae, Jessica's aster
  
• Insects on the Palouse, #2
  
• Native Seed and Plant Sources
  

June 2010 – 3(2)

• Featured Plant: Balsamorhiza sagittata, arrowleaf balsamroot
  
• Insects on the Palouse, #1
  
• Field Trips
  

March 2010 – 3(1)

• Featured Plant: Symphoricarpos albus, common snowberry
  
• Update on recent projects
  
• Recent publications regarding Palouse Prairie
  

June 2007 – 2(2)

• Featured Plant: Wyethia amplexicaulis, mule's ear
  
• Bringing the Palouse grassland to your yard
  
• Restoration funding opportunities
  
• Recent publications regarding Palouse prairie
  
• Palouse Prairie Foundation display
  

March 2007 – 2(1)

• Featured Plant: Ranunculus glaberrimus, sagebrush buttercup
  
• Ground-dwelling beetles on the Palouse
  
• Restoration funding opportunities
  
• Other recent publications regarding Palouse prairie
  
• Palouse Prairie Foundation display
  
• PPF meetings
  
• Volunteers needed
  
• 2007 dues
  

December 2006 – 1(4)

• Featured Plant: Yarrow, Achillea millefolium
  
• Overwintering plants
  
• Restoration funding opportunities
  
• Salvaged seed still available
  
• Palouse Prairie Foundation display
  

September 2006 – 1(3)

• Featured Plant: Poa secunda
  
• Native planting strip at Neill Public Library
  
• Status of seed increase activities at Palouse Prairie Natives
  
• Forb spreadsheet available
  
• Salvaged seed still available
  
• Palouse Prairie Foundation display
  

June 2006 – 1(2)

• Native plants at the UI Arboretum
  
• Restoration methods being studied
  
• Palouse prairie grasses
  
• Forb spreadsheet available
  
• Palouse Prairie Foundation display
  
• Salvaged seed available
  

March 2006 – 1(1)

• Giant Palouse Earthworm (Drilolierus americanus) found on Smoot Hill
  
• Maynard Fosberg to talk about patterned ground
  
• Do you know which of our many native forbs is the first to bloom each year?
  
• Heracleum lanatum (cow parsnip) and Lomatium dissectum (fern-leaf lomatium) seed salvaged from along SR 270
  
• Native plants to be used at Neill Public Library
• Two new publications
  
• PPF webserver crashes; new host found