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Clark College program looking to past to grow future

Students participate in effort to restore native plants in Columbia River Gorge

By Erin Middlewood, Columbian Managing Editor for Content
Published: November 22, 2022, 6:02am
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Sandy Haigh of the Center for Ecodynamic Restoration directs a group of Clark College students planting wildflowers to restore pollinator habitat at Sams Walker Day Use Area near Skamania last week.
Sandy Haigh of the Center for Ecodynamic Restoration directs a group of Clark College students planting wildflowers to restore pollinator habitat at Sams Walker Day Use Area near Skamania last week. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

SKAMANIA — Kathleen Perillo founded the Clark College Native Plant Center in 2014 to offer students a small way to counter all the environmental devastation they were learning about in her science classes.

Students propagate native plants in a greenhouse on the main Vancouver campus, and then take field trips to plant them in natural areas undergoing restoration.

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