| | Pullman Plant Materials CenterPullman, Washington Established 1935
The Pullman Plant Materials Center (WAPMC) in Pullman, Washington, lies in the Palouse Hills provides plant solutions for parts of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Eastern Washington, Oregon, and northern Idaho is a mosaic of cropland, orchards & vineyards, rugged scablands, native range, and mountains.
The service area of the Center faces many resource challenges. Winter winds strip unprotected topsoil and create dust clouds that degrade air quality for people living downwind. Melting snow erodes unprotected soil that pollutes receiving waters. Many of the region’s streams are important for salmon and steelhead trout spawning and rearing. Riparian areas in the Center’s service area frequently lack desirable vegetation that provides shade and woody debris for fish habitat. Invasive plants hinder streambank revegetation. Annual weeds have replaced native vegetation in many areas, and noxious weeds such as spotted knapweed are invading forested areas. These undesirable plants impede natural revegetation and threaten wildlife healthy environment. The Center has provided new vegetative technologies for suppressing noxious weeds, tree and shrub planting directly into Conservation Reserve Program acres, cover crops, riparian restoration, herbicide use, and Palouse Prairie restoration. The Pullman Plant Materials Center has developed over 30 conservation plants including varieties of Saskatoon serviceberry, western clematis, western dogwood, thickspike wheatgrass, Lewis mock orange, and common snowberry.
ContactPO Box 646211/ 211-A Hulbert Hall
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6211 Telephone: 509.335.6892
FAX: 509.335.2940
Email: Mark.Stannard@wa.usda.gov |
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