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Carrie Reid. Summary of w hat you guys learned…. Plants…. Camas flowers … don’t eat the bulbs with white flowers, but purple is tasty! Eat elder berries, get “the royal trots ” Huckleberry pruning is sustainable
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Carrie Reid Summary of what you guys learned…
Plants… • Camas flowers … don’t eat the bulbs with white flowers, but purple is tasty! • Eat elder berries, get “the royal trots” • Huckleberry pruning is sustainable • Certain plant species have medicinal properties (dandelions petals arehigh in zinc, milk can treat warts, stinging nettles) • Many medicinal plants are aquatic
Old growth cedar – deforestation/logging • Less large trees less shade less wetlands (1/3 of us live on filled in wetlands) • Changing climate - rainfall, changing ecosystems • Not all old growth forests are HUGE trees … why? • Strong – because it grows more slowly in shade • Bark is useful • Boiling water in canoes to stretch them
Lakes are shrinking • The population of Qualicum was the same 200 years ago… smallpox • Deep Baysank between 2.7 m (9 ft) and 25.6 m (84 ft).Canadian Hydrographic Service • Herring spawn every spring, collect eggs using branches • Skunk cabbage can be used to dye wool • Burial sites – we live on the blood and bones of their ancestors