Beekeeping Grows in Popularity at Work Camp

By Joe Harless

Starting from a volunteer's suggestion, keeping bees has become an unexpectedly popular work program with the staff and inmates at the Cedar Creek Corrections Center.

Located in the Capitol Forest of Littlerock, Wash., the facility rests on a 38-acre site leased from the Department of Natural Resources. The 400 inmates assigned to the camp perform numerous forestry duties, such as tree planting, land clearing, forest fire fighting, stream restoration, development of parks and trails and other work projects.

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