The Palouse Prairie Flyer

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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

  • Fall 2025

    Fall Weed Control: A Photo Essay

    Leave the Leaves

    A Look Back at the Palouse Prairie Foundation

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Spring 2024

    Locally Sourced Native Plant Materials – Available Now Near You

    Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)

    Part 3: Improvements at Whelan Cemetery

    Bur Chervil

  • 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

  • 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 Weeding Party

    Summer at John Crock Pollinator Garden

  • Spring 2021

    Planting Native Plants for Pollinators: A Win-Win-Win

    Look Out for Poison Hemlock

    Soil Sampling of Palouse Prairie

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Winter 2018

    2018 Annual Meeting

    Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse

    Whelan Fencing, Weeding

    Bee Box Workshop

    Presentations: Benscoter. Cheeke, Freed

    Matthew Dolkas Book

  • Winter 2017

    2017 Annual Meeting

    Bald Butte Cell Tower Proposal

    Alternative Giving Market of the Palouse

    Upcoming Events

  • Fall 2017

    John Crock Native Palouse Prairie Pollinator Garden

    Steptoe Butte Reserve Field trip

    Upcoming Events and Notices

  • Summer 2017

    Dedication of Dave Skinner Ecological Preserve

    Grass Identification Workshop

    Weeding at Whelan Cemetery

    Palouse Prairie Remnant Surveys in Whitman County

  • 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

  • Winter 2016

    Upcoming Events

    Steptoe Butte Palouse Prairie Preserve

    New Plaouse Prairie Ecological Preserve on Paradise Ridge

    Sy Montgomery and the Giant Palouse Earthworm

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Winter 2014

    Featured Plant: Erythronium grandiflorum

    US Highway 95 Thorn Creek Update

    Mini-grants Awarded

    Recent Publications

    Annual Meeting and Party

    Meeting Schedule

  • Winter 2012

    Featured Plant: Asclepias speciosa

    Pollinators and Pollinator Watch

    US 95 Update

    Notecards Available

    Links to the PPF Website

  • 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

  • Winter 2011

    Featured plant: Serviceberry, Amelachier alnifolia

    Election

    New Publication: Finding the Palouse Prairie

    Summary of Insect Bibliography

    Upcoming Events

    Mini-grants awarded

  • 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

  • Spring & Summer 2011

    Featured plant: Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana

    Palouse Plant Database

    Pulled from the vial: Bumble Bees of Palouse Prairie

    Palouse Wind Farm

  • Winter 2010

    Featured plant: Pyrrocoma liatriformis, Palouse Goldenweed

    Palouse Wind Farm

    PPF Membership Drive

  • Fall 2010

    Featured plant: Aster jessicae, Jessica’s Aster

    Insects on the Palouse Part 2

    Native Seed and Plant Sources

  • Summer 2010

    Featured plant: Balsamorhiza sagittata, Arrowleaf balsamroot

    Insects on the Palouse part 1

    Field Trips

  • Spring 2010

    Featured plant: Symphoricarpos albus, Common snowberry

    Update on recent projects

    Recent publications regarding Palouse Prairie

  • 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

  • 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

  • Winter 2006

    Featured plant: Achillea millefolium, Yarrow

    Overwintering plants

    Restoration Funding Opportunities

    Salvaged Seed Still Available

    Palouse Prairie Foundation Display

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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