The Palouse Prairie Flyer
The Palouse Prairie Flyer is the seasonal newsletter from the Palouse Prairie Foundation. Explore our archives below and subscribe to get future issues to your inbox.
Past Newsletters
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Fall 2025
Fall Weed Control: A Photo Essay
Leave the Leaves
A Look Back at the Palouse Prairie Foundation
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Spring 2025
Spring Photo Display
Harvest Park, Moscow’s Edible Forest
Salsify – Love It or Hate It?
Elegant Rein Orchid (Platanthera elegans elegans)
Palouse Prairie Foundation Is Selling 4P Kits
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Winter 2025
Part 2: McCroskey State Park Palouse Prairie Remnant
Palouse Prairie Foundation Presents Biological Soil Crusts in Remnant Prairies
New Plans for Whelan Cemetery
Pollinator Summit Information
Meet the 2025 Board of Directors
Thank You to Our Donors
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Fall 2024
Part 1: McCroskey State Park Palouse Prairie Remnant
Palouse Prairie Returns to UI Campus
One Hundred Palouse Prairie Pollinator Plant Kits Sold!
Prairie Gentian: October Color in a Sea of Brown
Don't Miss the PPF Annual Meeting
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Spring 2024
Locally Sourced Native Plant Materials – Available Now Near You
Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
Part 3: Improvements at Whelan Cemetery
Bur Chervil
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Winter 2024
Growing Palouse Prairie’s Future: Optimizing Palouse Prairie Restoration Through Large-Scale Native Seedling Cultivation
Part 2: Whelan Cemetery Receives Protection
Weeding Native Palouse Prairie at Dogwood Creek Farm
Meet the 2024 Board of Directors
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Fall 2023
The Fascinating History of Whelan Cemetery
Palouse Prairie Round-Table Talk
Biological Control Agents
Palouse Prairie Mini-Grant Overview
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Summer 2023
Plant Pollinator Interactions
Weeding at Whelan
Crock Update
Palouse Plant Kits Sold
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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
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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?
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Fall 2022
Reconstructing Palouse Prairie: One family’s attempt
Fall Weed Control: Russian Thistle and Canadian Marestail
Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
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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
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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?
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Summer and Fall 2021
Bryonia alba on the Palouse
Fourth Annual Whelan Weeding Party
Summer at John Crock Pollinator Garden
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Spring 2021
Planting Native Plants for Pollinators: A Win-Win-Win
Look Out for Poison Hemlock
Soil Sampling of Palouse Prairie
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Winter 2020
Join Palouse Prairie Foundation
2021 Board Election Results
Whelan Cemetery 8,000 Pounds Lighter
AGMP Donations to PPF
Update on Steptoe Butte Preserve Purchase
2020 Research
Mini-Grant Highlight: Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center
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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, December 1
Are You Eligible for a Mini-Grant?
2021 Membership Letter
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Summer 2020
Plant Species 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
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Fall 2019
Pam Brunsfeld The Wonderful World of Penstemons. the Beardstongues
Potential Palouse Prairie Maps
Steptoe Butte Prairie Reserve Fund
Cell Towers in the Prairie
Whelan Community Day
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Winter 2018
2018 Annual Meeting
Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
Whelan Fencing, Weeding
Bee Box Workshop
Presentations: Benscoter. Cheeke, Freed
Matthew Dolkas Book
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Winter 2017
2017 Annual Meeting
Bald Butte Cell Tower Proposal
Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
Upcoming Events
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Fall 2017
John Crock Native Palouse Prairie Pollinator Garden
Steptoe Butte Reserve Field trip
Upcoming Events and Notices
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Summer 2017
Dedication of Dave Skinner Ecological Preserve
Grass Identification Workshop
Weeding at Whelan Cemetery
Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveys in Whitman County
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Spring 2017
Upcoming Events
Steptoe Butte Update
How will VSP Protect Palouse Prairie Remnants
Palouse Prairie Remnant Survey in Whitman County
Moscow High School Native Planting
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Winter 2016
Upcoming Events
Steptoe Butte Palouse Prairie Preserve
New Plaouse Prairie Ecological Preserve on Paradise Ridge
Sy Montgomery and the Giant Palouse Earthworm
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Fall 2016
Field Identification of the Giant Palouse Earthworm
Evidence for Bombus occidentalis 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
Upcoming events
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Winter 2015
Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse results
2015 Annual Meeting and Party
Survey of Macromoths (Insects: Lepidoptera) of a Palouse Prairie Remnant site
Whitman County Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveys Summer 2015
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Summer and Fall 2015
James Riser presents Palouse Conservation District Results of this seasons Survey of Palouse Prairie Remnants in Whitman County
Annual Meeting and Social, Board Election
US 95 Realignment
Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse
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Spring 2015
John Edward Crock
PPF receives Moscow Earth Day Award
Upcoming Programs: Lori Carris, WSU Dept. of Plant Pathology, Uncovering the Secrets of Morel Mushrooms
Native Seed and Plant Sources
PPF T shirts
Meeting Schedule
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Winter 2014
Featured Plant: Erythronium grandiflorum
US Highway 95 Thorn Creek Update
Mini-grants Awarded
Recent Publications
Annual Meeting and Party
Meeting Schedule
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Winter 2012
Featured Plant: Asclepias speciosa
Pollinators and Pollinator Watch
US 95 Update
Notecards Available
Links to the PPF Website
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Summer 2012
Featured plant: Little sunflower, Helianthella uniflora
Native Pollinator Plants for the Palouse, Pamela Pavek, Conservation Agronomist, USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center
New Publications
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Winter 2011
Featured plant: Serviceberry, Amelachier alnifolia
Election
New Publication: Finding the Palouse Prairie
Summary of Insect Bibliography
Upcoming Events
Mini-grants awarded
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Fall 2011
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
Symposium on Dryland Organic Farming
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Spring & Summer 2011
Featured plant: Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana
Palouse Plant Database
Pulled from the vial: Bumble Bees of Palouse Prairie
Palouse Wind Farm
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Winter 2010
Featured plant: Pyrrocoma liatriformis, Palouse Goldenweed
Palouse Wind Farm
PPF Membership Drive
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Fall 2010
Featured plant: Aster jessicae, Jessica’s Aster
Insects on the Palouse Part 2
Native Seed and Plant Sources
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Summer 2010
Featured plant: Balsamorhiza sagittata, Arrowleaf balsamroot
Insects on the Palouse part 1
Field Trips
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Spring 2010
Featured plant: Symphoricarpos albus, Common snowberry
Update on recent projects
Recent publications regarding Palouse Prairie
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Summer 2007
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
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Spring 2007
Featured plant: Ranunculus glaberrimus, Sagebrush buttercup
Ground dwelling beetles on the Palouse
Restoration Funding Opportunities
Recent Publications regarding Palouse Prairie
Palouse Prairie Foundation Display
PPF Meetings
Volunteers needed
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Winter 2006
Featured plant: Achillea millefolium, Yarrow
Overwintering plants
Restoration Funding Opportunities
Salvaged Seed Still Available
Palouse Prairie Foundation Display
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Fall 2006
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
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Summer 2006
Native Plants at the UI Arboretum
Restoration methods being studied
Palouse Prairie Grasses
Forb spreadsheet available
Palouse Prairie Foundation Display
Salvaged Seed Available
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Spring 2006
Giant Palouse Earthworm 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 planted at Neill Public Library
Two new publications
PPF webserver crash, new host found
