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Estuarine Root Gardens
Estuaries are the world's most productive ecosystems. High in the salt marsh the edible roots of Silverweed, Clover, Riceroot, and Lupine abound.
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Cascade Blueberries
Many of our mountain slopes are thickly blanketed with delicious fruit in the late summer.
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Summer’s Berry Diversity
Throughout the summer, coastal forest openings produce a delicious diversity of fruit.
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Mountain Meadows
As soon as the mountain snows melt, Glacier Lilies spring up and bloom. All parts are edible, especially the sweet corms.
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Shores of Seaweed
Laying Nori out to dry. Virtually every ecosystem from the salty oceans to the snowy mountains produces an abundance of indigenous foods.
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Wapato Marsh
Growing from freshwater sloughs and marshes, Wapato is one of our choicest root vegetables
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Wild Rice lakes and sloughs
For a century or more wild rice has graced many lakes and sloughs throughout the Pacific Northwest
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Coastal Forests
Along coastal margins where sunlight penetrates the dark forests, Salal flourishes
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Fire Morels
Young trees and mushrooms flourish after fires in our dry forests
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Clam Beaches
Several types of tasty shellfish thrive where the sound meets the shore.
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Fish
Beneath both heaven and sea swim salmon, halibut, smelt, and lingod.
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Elk
Native Elk once roamed the San Juan Islands and much of our region.
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River Fishing
For countless generations, Native Americans have sustainably managed their river based fisheries. Can we?
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Bigleaf Maple Syrup
An untapped potential, Bigleaf Maple trees produce sap that can be reduced to a sweet syrup just like eastern Sugar Maples'.
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Balsam Meadows
Eastern valley slopes to dry for agriculture produce dozens edible root varieties.