Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Nepalis still rely on wild plants to a great extent for medicine, fodder, fiber, and to a more limited extent, food. Mushrooms, berries, and wild greens form the most important groups of wild foods. Found here in the Pacific Northwest is also abundant and widely eaten in Nepal.

Every weekend I will post photos collected from various North Cascades Institute graduate students and staff. This post is a guest contribution by Anders Rodin, a cartographer and participant in The Art of Drawing Maps class at the Nor.

Visit the Calendar to view upcoming field trips or chapter projects. 8203;Click the graphic at left. and starting shopping! June 1-3 in Prineville. Weekend full of hikes, socializing, dinners and guest speakers. Must be a current member of NPSO to attend.

All about the inner workings of organic fertilizers. Extraction technologies for medicinal and aromatic plants.

Biodiversity Collections for Pharmacological Screening. Richard Spjut, Principal Investigator. Samples collected with limitation only to avoid duplication of species, sometimes referred to as biodiversity sampling or biodiversity prospecting. Samples obtained according to phytogeographic and taxonomic criteria, and by emphasis on plant parts most likely to show activity. Key to 44 Species of Carex.

Crop Wild Relatives of the United States. A blog about the progress of planning for the conservation of crop wild relatives in the United States. If you had to collect seeds from a particular species within a particular country, how would you know exactly where to go? How would you distinguish the species you were targeting from its close relatives? How would you know when the seeds would be ripe? Most Floras.

Botany and Natural History in the Bodie Hills and Beyond. On a recent hike near Carson Pass in Alpine County, I encountered this critter crawling vigorously across a dry swale in the subalpine dwarf-shrub steppe at 8,900 feet. It was about the size of my little finger and was about to disappear under an. That was a good thing, because on doing an image search in Google and checking further on Butterflies and Moths of North America.

Dispersal limitation at northern range margins? Wednesday, 9 March 2016. Vancouver GIS User Group - presentation. Monday, 11 January 2016. UBC MSc thesis available online. Friday, 10 July 2015.