The WSU Arboretum Committee is currently working on a newly established arboretum site adjacent to the Lewis Alumni Center. The campus Arboretum will require many years and much dedicated effort on the part of many people to fully develop.
The Native Plant & Landscape Restoration Nursery assists in this ongoing development, particularly in the design and creation of native plant botanical gardens, campus restoration sites, and other native plant exhibits for public recreation and education.
WSU Arboretum & Botanical Garden
A reforestation project has been underway at the E.H. Steffen Teaching & Research Center at WSU for over 40 years. This campus forest is used extensively for teaching, research, and as a demonstration area for the public. The Steffen Center Forest contains a variety of native ponderosa pine plantings and other introduced trees, shrubs, and flowering plants used as an outdoor ecological laboratory.
The Native Plant & Landscape Restoration Nursery operates out of the labs, greenhouses, and nursery at this campus facility.
Round Top Park is a small, hilltop park maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers from WSU and the Pullman community. "Round Top" preserves one of the few scenic vantage points on campus that allows visitors to see across campus and miles of the surrounding Palouse Prairie landscape.
The Nursery supports the continuing beautification and planting of native vegetation and flowering plants at this campus park.
Round Top Park
The Camas Garden is a new botanical garden
under initial development at the nursery. This garden is dedicated
to displays of local native and commercial camas varieties and other
selected flowering plants in the Lily Family. The first limited public
display may be offered in spring, 2004.
