Volunteers with Center for Natural Lands Management and students in the UW-Tacoma Ecological Restoration class plant prairie plants (including Golden Paintbrush) last winter to restore habitat for butterflies at South Sound prairies in Thurston County. Sometimes it’s pouring, but these hardy volunteers got to talk to DNR’s Natural Areas Ecologist David Wilderman (in green rain gear at far right) about butterflies, especially the Taylor’s Checkerspot; prairies, prescribed fire, and restoration.
And some days it’s sunny and beautiful! You could have been there!
good nectar source for butterflies.
All photos by R. Johnson.
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Regina Johnson
WBA Board Member, Editor of the G’num Newsleter & Moderator for WBA iNat Professional ecologist and horticulturalist