Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Restoration Agreement • March 5th, 2016
Contract Type FiledMarch 5th, 2016Students from Plumas Unified School District continue to help Plumas NF botanists with the propagation of rare and endemic plants. Phase two of the Rich Fire Restoration Astragalus Webberi Habitat Enhancement Project continued with Greenville HS students growing the plants in the well-established school greenhouse. Students from Greenville & Chester High Schools planted over four-hundred of the rare Webber’s milkvetch. Greenville High students returned to the field in May to check the survivability and progress of the rare seedlings. About 25% of the plants survived a very dry, cold winter. Students learned that environmental conditions, terrain, and weather can have an impact on surviva- bility. But these rare and endangered plants just might have a fighting chance at continued survival due to the stu- dents’ efforts!