Arboretum & Wildlife Center News:
Students seeking challenging and interesting internship opportunities are invited to apply for the 2012 Internship Program of the WSU Arboretum & Wildlife Conservation Center. Applicants interested in environmental education, natural history and tour guide programs, garden development, and managing volunteer projects and restoration activities are encouraged to apply.
This fall, students in restoration ecology are planting more than 2,000 bulbs of common camas (Camassia quamash) and other species of camas flowers in a renovated garden in the WSU Arboretum & Wildlife Conservation Center.
We are proud to announce that graduate student, Erim Gomez, is the winner of the 2011 Environmental Fellowship from the Bullitt Foundation. Erim is beginning his Ph.D. in the Endangered Species Lab in the WSU Arboretum & Wildlife Conservation Center.
Wildlife scientists are exploring the dynamics of landscape ecology of burrowing owls nesting in shrub-steppe in Washington. See results from the poster at the presented at the WSU Academic Showcase.
Graduate student, Erim Gomez, is using data mining techniques to develop ecological models describing amphibian populations along a biogeographic gradient extending through the Palouse Prairie from Moscow Mountain, Idaho, to Moses Lake, Washington.
Wildlife biologist and graduate student, Richard Whitney, is studying population and habitat ecology of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, classified as threatened in Washington. Native grassland restoration may be crucial to saving the surviving populations still persisting on tribal lands in Washington State.