Prairie restoration continues on Kamiak Butte

Kamiak Butte ranger Todd Heitstuman has already sprinkled the slopes of the butte with the seeds of native prairie grasses this year.

The planting on an old section of trail is one more step toward using the remaining $16,000 of the Prairie Restoration Grant awarded to the county parks department.

Heitstuman learned in early April that the state’s 10-year grant to the parks department had been shortened to a seven-year grant. This bumps up the deadline for using all the funds to this August.

The federal grant is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Prairie Restoration Grant given to the county in 2006 for...