Recent news: Dr. LeRoy talks about her research on this podcast episode of Conservation Starters by the Thurston Conservation District!
(a selection of other media coverage, in order of impact)
The New York Times. September 27, 2012. Raising Frogs for Freedom, Prison Project Opens Doors
Associated Press (over 75 papers nationwide; international news). September 22, 2012. Prison Inmates Save Endangered Species At Cedar Creek Corrections Center.
PBS NewsHour. May 17, 2016. Do call it a comeback — how the checkerspot butterfly found salvation in a women’s prison.
Science. April 23, 2021. Researchers decry planned road near St. Helens
L.A. Times. May 17, 2020. Forty years after its famed eruption, Mt. St. Helens looms as a marvel and a threat.
Science Advances. January 9, 2019. Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones.
Nature News. August 09, 2012. Prisoners pitch in to save endangered butterfly.
High Country News. May 1, 2020. The threat below Mount St. Helens: Forty years after the mountain’s eruption, officials struggle to balance research and risk.
Science Daily. May 2, 2017. Leaf litter has slower decomposition rate than expected in warm temps.
Discover Magazine. August 09, 2012. Prisoners Do Science, Help to Save Endangered Butterfly.
NPR Earth Notes. 2005. Cottonwood leaf litter influences in-stream communities and processes.
The Seattle Times. December 12, 2017. Aging Tunnel Near Mount St. Helens Needs Work to Avert Flood Risks.
The Seattle Times. October 2011. Inmates training to raise rare butterflies from artillery range.
The Daily News. May 14, 2020. Sex and the Volcano: Researcher Learns Nature Favors Females in New Creeks.
The Christian Science Monitor. October 14, 2004. Life under one tree’s rule?
Thurston Talk. May 22, 2020. Evergreen Students Contribute to Groundbreaking Mount St. Helens Stream Research.
Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin. January 29, 2016. Study looks at how interaction of leaf litter, salmon carcasses impacts nutrients in salmon spawning: Columbia_Basin_Fish_&_Wildlife_News_Bulletin_2016
Documentary film. A Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems. 2012.
Video: Environmental Analysis. 2011.
For a complete list of press on the Sustainability in Prisons Project, see Press Archive.