2024 ERIG Recipients are:
- Idaho Botanical Garden, Daniel Murphy; Eriogonum Collection at Idaho Botanical Garden
- Mighty Monarch Conservation Group, Perky Smith-Hagadone; Native Milkweed Perpetual Propagation
- Rachel R. Renne, Yale School of the Environment; Investigating perennial forb microsites in big sagebrush ecosystems
Below are the past recipients of the Education Research Inventory Grant (ERIG).
The following table lists recipients, report titles and Sage Notes issues the report appeared in if the report and/or Sage Notes issue is available online. Information is added to this table as it becomes available.
Year | Recipient | Title | Sage Notes issue | Status |
2024 | Idaho Botanical Garden, Daniel Murphy | Eriogonum Collection at Idaho Botanical Garden | In progress | |
2024 | Mighty Monarch Conservation Group, Perky Smith-Hagadone | Native Milkweed Perpetual Propagation | In progress | |
2024 | Renne, Rachel R., Yale School of the Environment | Investigating Perennial Forb Microsites in Big Sagebrush Ecosystems | In progress | |
2023 | Emily Burgess, Utah State University | Long Term Monitoring of Wildflower Community, Bear Lake Region | In progress | |
2023 | Hailey, Native Plant Arboretum | Native Plants and Pollinators-Go Hand in Hand! | In progress | |
2023 | Weiser Depot Landscape Committee | Demonstrating Importance of Native Plants in Landscape Design | In progress | |
2023 | Mahima Dixit, CBG, Claremont Graduate University | Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Eriogonum deflexum Complex | In progress | |
2023 | Happyville Farm, Idaho Falls | Idaho Falls Area Native Plant Demonstration and Education Gardens | on hold, team out of contact | |
2022 | City of Hailey | Hailey Native Plant Arboretum, Interpretation and Educ Enhancement | December 2023 | Completed |
2022 | Clara Buchholtz, BSU | Astragalus mulfordiae pollination | December 2023 | Completed |
2022 | IDF&G, SW Region | Native Plant, Habitat and Pollinator Demonstration Garden | September 2024 | In progress |
2022 | Natural Connections Academy | Native Plant Gardens: Bird/Pond | Withdrawn | |
2022 | NW Center for Alternatives to Pesticides | Fort Hall Native Plant Project | December 2023 | Completed |
2021 | Blaine Co. Recreation District | Native Plant Arboretum signage | December 2021 | Completed |
2021 | Michael Daines, BYU Idaho | An Updated Floristic Summary of the Caribou/Targhee NF and Curlew NG | September 2023 | Completed Requirements |
2021 | Molly Carney, Washington State University | Establishing Archaeological Identification Criteria | September 2023 | Completed Requirements |
2021 | Monticello Montessori School, Ammon, ID | Native Plant Information Station | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2021 | UI Extension, Twin Falls County | Native Plant Demonstration Garden Signage | September 2023 | Completed Requirements |
2021 | Orton Botanical Garden | Tri-fold brochures for Gardens | June 2022 | Completed Requirements |
2020 | Sawtooth Botanical Garden | Native Plant and Pollinator Garden Refurbish | In progress | |
2020 | Salmon Valley Stewardship | Native Plant Signage Upgrade | In progress | |
2019 | Cynthia Mann Elementary | Native Plant and Pollinator Garden | Terminated | |
2019 | Israel Borokini | Genome Size Study – Ivesia taxa | Oral presentation to INPS | Completed Requirements |
2019 | Tautphaus Park Zoological Society | Native Plants for Maeck Education Center | Terminated | |
2019 | The Village Charter School | Expand School Native Garden for students and Community | Terminated | |
2019 | Lonejack Butte Palouse Prairie Restoration | Restoration Forest, Prairie, Farmland | Presentation | Completed Requirements |
2019 | Selkirk Outdoor Leadership and Education (SOLE) | Round Lake State Park Demonstration Garden | Terminated | |
2019 | Plant Diversity Bedrock Meadows | Field Research Diversity and Species Composition | September 2020 | Complete |
2018 | Ada Community Library; Mary DeWalt | Victory Branch Pollinator Garden | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2018 | City of Dover | City Park Native Plant Gardens; Michelle Hutchings | terminated | |
2018 | Quakie Quest: Inventorying Aspen in the Wild West and Increasing Aspen Awareness | Salmon Valley Stewardship; Jenny Gonyer | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2018 | Dept Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The OSU; Rosa Rodriguez-Pena | Evaluating the role of pollinator mediated selection in flower morphology (Penstemon) | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2018 | Gloria Program; Michael Mancuso | Establishing a Gloria program in Idaho | March 2019 | Complete |
2018 | Sawtooth Botanical Garden, Gardens and Facilities; Katherine Noble Manager | Improvements to Two Montane Gardens at SBG | December 2023 | Complete |
2017 | Orton Botanical Garden, Twin Falls, ID; Caroline Morris, LaMar Orton | Idaho Native Plant Sign Improvement Project | March 2019 | Complete |
2017 | Steven K. Rust | Reconciliation of the Wellner Collections | Terminated | |
2017 | Suzanne Stone PTO President | Collister Elementary School Garden, Boise, Idaho | Terminated | |
2017 | Amy Thorson graduate student, University of Idaho McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS) | Ponderosa State Park Native Plant Restoration Project | Complete? Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2017 | Michael Ottenlips | A Taxonomic Revision of the state sensitive species complex Lomatium | March 2019 | Complete |
2017 | Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute Learning Nursery and Nature Center (PCEI) | Nursery and Trail Sign Enhancement (funded by White Pine Chapter of INPS) | Completed Requirements (White Pine) | |
2016 | Boise Urban Garden School (BUGS), Boise, Idaho; ERIN Guerricabeitia, Executive Director | BUGS Native Plant Garden | Terminated | |
2016 | Tim Reynolds, Friends of Camas National Wildlife Refuge Inc. and Sue Braastad, Upper Snake Chapter | Camas Pollinator Garden | Dec. 2016 | Complete |
2016 | Kat Vanden Heuvel, Sawtooth Botanical Garden, Executive Director | Carol’s Wildflower Garden – An Educational Display of Native Flora | Dec. 2018 | Complete |
2016 | Leslie Freeman and Murray Dalgleish, Superintendent/HS Principal | Council Pond Butterfly and Moth Garden | Terminated | |
2016 | Michael C. Rotter, Graduate Fellow, Northern Arizona University | Insect Herbivores and Trait Evolution in Mimulus guttatus | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2016 | Kay Beall, USFS Boise NF and Clark Fleege, Lucky Peak Nursery Manager | Lucky Peak Nursery Monarch and Native Bee Garden | June 2018 | Complete |
2016 | Friends of Deer Flat, Robert C. Christensen, President and Wendy Irwin, Volunteer Coordinator | Native Sagebrush-Steppe Restoration at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge | Sept. 2018 | Complete |
2016 | The Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey, Tate Mason, Education Coordinator | Raptor Ridge Restoration Project | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2016 | Kristen Gnojewski | Sage International School Wetland | Dec. 2017 | Complete |
2015 | Hawthorne Elementary School, Boise, Idaho | Hawthorne Elementary Native Habitat Teaching Garden | Dec. 2017 | Complete |
2015 | Lauren Studley, Project leader | Idaho’s Flesh-eating Forbs, A Comprehensive Guide to Idaho’s Carnivorous Plants | Awaiting Sage Notes article | |
2014 | Jeffrey P. Rose MS, PhD student, The University of Wisconsin, Madison | Evolution and Biogeography of Polemonium (Polemoniaceae): the Polemonium pulcherrimum Species Complex in Idaho | Dec. 2017 | Complete |
2014 | Dr. Stephen Love, University of Idaho, Aberdeen R&E Center | Acquisition of High Elevation, Dwarf and Compact Forms of Idaho Penstemon Species for Horticultural Use | Dec. 2014 | Complete |
2014 | Rebecca Stubbs, PhD Student, Department of Biology, University of Florida | Into the cold: Montane Idaho as refugium for alpine-arctic Micranthes (Saxifragaceae) | Mar. 2016 | Complete |
2013 | Bruneau Elementary School, Bruneau, Idaho, Amber Pearson, Principal; Brandi Lisle, Teacher | An Outdoor Learning Environment | Dec. 2015 | Complete |
2013 | Pocatello Zoo, Pocatello, Idaho, Corrine Coffman | Wild about Idaho’s Native Plants | Sept. 2015 | Complete |
2012 | Rockford Elementary, Blackfoot, Idaho, Julie Wada, Rockford PTA President | Outdoor Classroom Initiative | Dec. 2013 | Complete |
2012 | Roosevelt Elementary, Boise, Idaho, Holly Beck, INPS member and Parent | Outdoor Classroom Initiative | May 2013 | Complete |
2012 | Panhandle Animal Shelter, Ponderay, Idaho, Mandy G. Evans, Executive Director | Native Plant Landscape | Sept. 2015 | Complete |
2011 | Rolling Hills Public Charter School, Boise | Environmental Literacy and Living Classroom Initiative | Project discontinued | |
2011 | Idaho Museum of Natural History | Replacing identification tags, outdoor exhibit | Awaiting report | |
2010 | Fred Rabe, Friends of the Clearwater | Fortynine Meadows – Proposed RNA | Feb. 2011 | Complete |
2010 | Kinnikinnick NPS | Landscaping with Native Plants in the Idaho Panhandle (book submitted) | Dec. 2011 | Complete |
2010 | Gail Bolin, Graduate Student – University of Idaho | Native Plant Riparian Buffer Demonstration Site: Dover City Park, Dover, ID: Interpretive signs, brochures | N/A | Complete |
2010 | Palouse Prairie School, Moscow | Introducing Elementary School Students to the Native Plants of the Palouse Prairie | Sept. 2012 | Complete |
2009 | Gail Bolin, Graduate Student – University of Idaho | Native Plant Riparian Buffer Demonstration Site: Dover City Park, Dover, ID | May 2010 | Complete |
2009 | John Crock | Restore one-half acre Palouse Prairie along Latah Trail, east of Moscow,Idaho | Project discontinued | |
2009 | Danielle L Clay, Graduate Student, Boise State University | Explore Potential Hybridizing of Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja Christii, Orobanchaeae) Using Molecular and Morphological Techniques. | Dec. 2011 | Complete |
2008 | Dylan Levy-Boyd, Graduate Student – Prescott College | Macrofungi of the South Hills, Idaho | Spring 2009 | Complete |
2008 | Kay Beall, Boise National Forest, Idaho City District | Mores Creek Summit and Rabbit Creek Interpretive Kiosks Project | Winter 2008 | Complete |
2008 | Sah-Wah-Be Chapter (Cathy Frischmann, Karl Holte, Janet Bala) | Native Plant Guide to North Bannock County/Southeastern Idaho | ||
2007 | Ed Papenberg, Americorps Volunteer Coordinator | Magic Valley Citizen Seed Harvest Project | ||
2007 | Stephen L. Love, University of Idaho | Native Plant Germplasm Collection in the Seven Devils Region | Winter 2008 | Complete |
2006 | Stephen L. Love, University of Idaho | Collection of Native Plant Germplasm for Use in Home Landscapes – Owyhee Mountains | Winter 2006 | Complete |
2006 | Kinnikinnick Chapter | Lichens in a Conservation Context: Presentation and Field Excursion by Toby Spribille | Winter 2006 | Complete |
2005 | Kinnikinnick Chapter | Forest Management and Lichens: Presentation and Field Excursion by Toby Spribille | N/A | Complete |
2005 | Sawtooth Botanical Garden | Native Plants for High Elevation Western Gardens: A Lecture by Nancy R Morin | N/A | Complete |