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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107100150im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Press Release 08-186 Inmates Conduct Ecological Research on Slow-growing Mosses
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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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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.
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Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College at Cedar Creek.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni |
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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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107100150im_/http://nsf.gov/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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A Cedar Creek inmate and researcher in the Moss-in-Prisons project studies mosses.
Credit: Nalini Nadkarni |
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