This long-range plan was developed in accordance with the National Plant Materials Manual, Part 540.01 (June 2000). This plan may also serve as a reference to develop specific action items which will be incorporated into the Washington, Oregon and Idaho state Business Plans.
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(PDF, 110KB)Key elements of the long-range plan:
NUTRIENT AND ANIMAL WASTE BUFFER PROJECT PLAN
Goal: Reduce nitrogen loss to deep percolation.
STREAMBANK BUFFER PROJECT PLAN
Goal: Reduce bank erosion.
WIND EROSION BUFFER PROJECT PLAN
Goal #1: Create buffers that will reduce soil particle saltation
Goal #2: Create "tall" woody buffers that will slow wind velocity
Goal #3: Stabilize soils that are prone to excessive aggregate destruction.
PALOUSE PRAIRIE RESTORATION PROJECT PLAN
Goal: Create technology to restore Palouse Prairie vegetation in former cropland.
The Palouse Prairie ecosystem, located in eastern Washington and adjacent areas of northern Idaho, and northeastern Oregon, and the associated environmental benefits are endangered to the point of extinction. The Palouse Prairie is considered to be one of the twenty most endangered ecosystems in the United State by Reed Noss (Wild Earth, Spring, 1997) and others. It may actually be the rarest prairie ecosystem in North America. Many important native conservation plants, such as beardless bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, prairie junegrass, biscuitroots, and camas, were components of this plant community. The Palouse ecotypes of these plants are now extremely rare. The Palouse region is now an annual cropland of cereal grains and annual legumes planted on highly erosive steep hillsides.
The objective is to restore/rehabilitate a native Palouse Prairie to a Festuca idahoensis - Symphoricarpos albus plant community at the Pullman PMC and other sites as appropriate. This may involve establishment of native prairie in blocks or plots in a prepared seedbed formerly in grass sod or annual cropland at the Pullman PMC.
Study Leader: Dave Skinner