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Olsen Creek flows into Lake Whatcom near Bellingham WA. It has an average summer flow around 1 cubic feet/sec (CFS) and an average winter flow around 12 CFS. After an already wetter than average November, it rained 5-8" in 72 hours and caused Olsen Creek to flood to at least 780 CFS. This is the highest flow during the 22 years of record keeping (although certainly not as high as the 1983 debri...

I present the use of bulrushes as food by Native Americans and First Peoples from the American West and the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. My focus is on Hardstem, Softstem, California, River, and Maritime Bulrushes from the genera Scheonoplectus and Bolboschoenus. This talk was created for 2021 Society of Ethnobiology Conference.

Highlights from my road trip down the West Coast from NW Washington to Southern California, sailing in the Channel Islands, and another road trip through the Mohave and Sonoran Deserts through Eastern California, Arizona, and Nevada

Sailing trip to South East Alaska with stops at the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, and points south including Limestone Harbor, Midway Island, Tracy Arm, Endicott Arm, Fords Terror, Gilbert Creek, Whiting River, and Taku Harbor.

This is the final video in my Wetland Plant ID series at Western Washington University. I cover a dozen weedy grasses and a dozen weedy herbaceous plants that are likely to show up in poor quality wetlands in the Pacific Northwest. Agrostis, Agropyron, Alopecurus, Anthoxanthum, Dactylis, Holcus, Lolium, Phalaris, Phleum, Schedonorus, Vicia, Typha, Rumex, Ranunculus, Carex, Scirpus,

This is the 6th virtual field trip for my Natural History of the Pacific Northwest class at Western Washington University. We go to the North Cascades and explore the Silver Fir, and Mt. Hemlock zones near Heather Meadows.

This is a virtual field trip for my Wetland Plant Identification Class at Western Washington University. In this video, I visit Summer Lake bog in Skagit County, WA and discuss the identification features of ~30 plants.

This is a virtual field trip for my Wetland Plant Identification Class at Western Washington University. In this video, I visit Summer Lake bog in Skagit County, WA and discuss the identification features of ~30 plants.

This is a virtual field trip for my Wetland Plant ID class at Western Washington University. In this video I visit Dailey Prairie one the largest fens in Washington State and discuss the identification characteristics of ~25 wetland plants with an emphasis on sedges (Carex spp.).

This is a virtual field trip for my Wetland Plant Identification class at Western Washington University. I discuss the distinguishing characteristics of 30 plants commonly found in estuarine salt marshes and more saline coastal marshes. This video was filmed in three Skagit County marshes: Craft Island, Fir Island Farm, and Port Susan Bay.

This is a "virtual field trip" for my Wetland Plant ID class at Western Washington University. In this video I visit Lake Terrell and Tennant Lake in Whatcom County and describe the identifying characteristics of ~30 marsh plants.

This is a virtual field trip for my Wetland Plant Identification Class at Western Washington University. I visit a Sitka Spruce and Western Redcedar swamp and a scrub/shrub wetland and discuss the identifing characteristics of 30 common wetland plants found in those habitats.

This is the fourth virtual field trip for my Whatcom Community College Ethnobotany class. In this video I visit Bowman Bay at Deception Pass State Park and discuss the diversity of habitats found their and the ethnobotanical uses of the flora.

Natural History of the Salish Sea Shorelines

Natural History and tree mensuration of Lowland Forests in the Pacific Northwest

Field trip 4 Natural History Tennant Lake

Conifer ID and ethnobotany of the Pacific Northwest

Ethnobotany Field trip 5 Traditional Cooking techniques

Ethnobotany Field trip 8 Medicinal Plants

Swamp and Scrub/Shrub Wetland Plants of the Pacific Northwest

Biocultural Diversity of Nepal highlights long

Spreading Wild Rice out to dry

Unloading full ricing canoe

Push Pole technique for harvesting Wild Rice

Harvesting Wild Rice

Wild Rice harvesting equipment

Wild Rice parching with human powered equipment

Wild Rice processing parching and hulling with homemade equipment