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News Release 08-186
Inmates Conduct Ecological Research on Slow-growing Mosses
Moss-in-Prisons project helps promote sustainable living
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The Moss-in-Prisons project promotes the rehabilitation of prisoners.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College.
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![Photo of moss stripped from a tree.](/news/mmg/media/images/prison_moss2_f2.jpg)
Ecologically important mosses are (often illegally) stripped from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest for the growing horticulture trade, which currently exceeds $265 million per year. But because mosses may take decades to re-grow, such harvesting is not sustainable.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni
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![Photo of Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College at Cedar Creek.](/news/mmg/media/images/prison_moss3_f.jpg)
Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College at Cedar Creek.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni
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![Photo of a Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project holding moss.](/news/mmg/media/images/prison_moss4_f.jpg)
A Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project holds moss.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College
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![Photo of a Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project tending the garden.](/news/mmg/media/images/prison_moss5_f.jpg)
A Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project tends the garden.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni
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![Photo of a Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project studying mosses.](/news/mmg/media/images/prison_moss6_f.jpg)
A Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project studies mosses.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni
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