Incarcerated women restoring Idaho’s burn scar land [Video]

BOISE, Idaho — A group of incarcerated women are contributing to the restoration of Idaho lands after the long wildfire season.

The Sagebrush in Prisons Project allows adults in custody to grow sagebrush and rabbitbrush while in confinement to be planted in Idaho nature.

The project has been ongoing since 2015 and is put together by the Idaho Department of Correction, Idaho Fish & Game, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Institute for Applied Ecology.

Multiple male and female correctional facilities in Idaho participate in the Sagebrush in Prisons Projects.

Since 2015, the project has led to the planting of 850,000 brush seedlings.

The seedlings are planted and cared for in the incarceration facilities year-round. 

On Wednesday, some of the women in the program from South Boise Women’s Correctional Center(SBWCC) …