April 2022 E-Newsletter
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Featured Articles
Planting Kincaid’s lupine to help rare butterflies

Recently, intrepid volunteers, landowners and staff from IAE and partner agencies, planted over 6000 plugs of Kincaid’s lupine (Lupinus oreganus) at four restoration sites near Corvallis, Oregon.

Kincaid’s lupine is a threatened plant species, found primarily in the prairies of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, that has become rare due to the loss and degradation of prairie habitat. Kincaid’s lupine is the primary host plant for the endangered Fender’s blue butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi). Read More
Corvallis Community Comes Together for Earth Day
The Institute for Applied Ecology has joined together with Corvallis Environmental Center, Seeds for the SOL, Chintimini Wildlife Center and Earth Day Oregon to celebrate Earth Day with events happening all month long. Earth Day Oregon is a non-profit organization that aims to amplify the work Oregon organizations are doing to improve our environment. In the model, Business Sponsors around Oregon have donated to environmental organizations in honor of Earth Day and show their support for the real work they do to affect the sustainability of our planet.

In Corvallis, our organizations joined together to share out all the events we have in store for our community, and are hosting an Earth Day evening celebration at Common Fields Food Cart & Tap House with engaging displays and booths to connect around our shared work. Come out and join our collaboration and do your part for our planet's future. Working together, we can make a bigger impact. Read More
Board Spotlight: John Savage
We are grateful to John for serving on IAE's Board of Directors. John is the President of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon. As Chapter president, he leads native plant hikes in Oregon’s natural areas, organizes the Chapter’s Nature Talk series, and oversees the administration of the Chapter’s two scholarship funds for Oregon college and university students, among other duties. John serves as treasurer for Straub Outdoors – one of the premier outdoor education program providers in Oregon – and for the Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship fund for college-bound students who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latino, Asian, or Pacific Islander. John also mentors students at Highland and Hoover elementary schools, serves on the Advisory Board of the Elakha Alliance, and is a CERT volunteer. John worked in the energy field for nearly 40 years. He served as Director of the Oregon Department of Energy from 1993 through 2001 and was an Oregon Public Utility Commissioner from 2003 through 2017. Read More about IAE's Board
Announcements & Brief Updates
Southwest Office
Thanks to funding from the Santa Fe National Forest, IAE Southwest Office will be initiating a rare plant inventory and germplasm collection for Arizona willow (Salix arizonica) in the Santa Fe and Carson Forests this summer. Arizona willow, a Forest Service Sensitive species, is threatened by livestock and wildlife browsing, hydrological changes, ski resorts, and rust (pathogenic fungi). An IAE botany team will relocate and assess conditions of existing populations where they grow in the subalpine zone (10,000-11,200 feet) and carefully collect cuttings for long term preservation in the National Plant Germplasm System.  
Plant Materials Program
IAE staff recently had a planting day at the Native Plant Farm! We transferred greenhouse-propagated seedlings to the great outdoors to grow and create more seeds and plants for future restoration projects. Baby Willamette daisy (Erigeron decumbens), an endangered prairie species, made its debut at our plots at the Oregon State University Vegetable Farm to produce seed for future restoration and recovery efforts. Grow well, young seedlings!
Farming for the Future: Native Seed Production Tour, May 2
Join the Benton Soil and Water Conservation District and Institute for Applied Ecology to tour IAE's native plant farm with experts in propagating and producing native plants to provide restoration sites with pollinator and wildlife resources. On Monday, May 2 from 10 am to noon, we will gather at the Oregon State University Vegetable Farm plots that are dedicated to raising natives. BWSCD and IAE staff will present outdoors at the plots about native plants, management, weed control, use of fire, companion planting, and lessons learned. Check the IAE calendar for more info and detailed directions.
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IAE Board of Directors:
Ken Bierly, President; Brandy Humphreys, Vice President; Cary Stephens, Secretary; Jack Halsey, Treasurer; Jason Bradford, Anne Bradley, Shinji Kawai, Judy Li, John Savage, Carol Savonen, Sunia Yang