Carrie ReidSummary 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 are high in

zinc, milk can treat warts, stinging nettles)• Many medicinal plants are aquatic

Stinging Nettles

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 Bay sank 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