WHF: Wyoming Honor Farm
Growing 25,000 native plants for Sage-grouse habitat, including Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and Silver Sage (Artemisia cana).
- A partnership between Institute for Applied Ecology, Wyoming Department of Corrections, and Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality – Abandoned Mine Lands (DEQ-AML)
- WHF is located in Riverton Wyoming, and is a minimum security facility.
- Wyoming joined the Sagebrush in Prisons Project in 2019.
- A shade house structure was constructed by DOC to grow and house the sagebrush.
- Some of the sagebrush from WHF will be planted to restore abandoned mine lands on BLM land by Lander Middle School students (AMLs).
News Coverage
- 10/01/19: County 17 News: DEQ, BLM partner with organizations to restore sagebrush ecosystem
- 9/27/19: Wyoming Public Media: Regrowing the West: Inmates employ new strategy to revitalize sagebrush
- 9/26/19: Wyoming DEQ: Restoring the sagebrush ecosystem: Wyoming Honor Farm
- 11/14/17 KTWO News in Lander, Wyoming, features students planting out sagebrush grown in our Utah facility.(video not available)
- 11/13/17 Gillette, WY News Record features these Sagebrush in Prisons plants planted by middle school children.
