Alaska S Wild Plants Revised Edition

Author : Janice J. Schofield
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781513262802

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Alaska's Wild Plants, Revised Edition by Janice J. Schofield Pdf

With bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants. Alaska’s Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska’s lands. Now reorganized to be more user friendly with a new introduction to foraging, this informative book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you. Understand basic principles to foraging and easy plant preparations. Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses. Discover the habitats where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly. Identify the plant’s physical characteristics with an accompanying color photograph. Find more expert sources to continue your plant education. For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska’s most common edible plants, including chickweed, high bush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.

Author : Janice Schofield Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067902779

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Alaska's Wild Plants by Janice Schofield Eaton Pdf

Profiles more than seventy wild, edible plants native to Alaska with color photographs and descriptions, and includes information on plant habitats, harvesting wild plants, and related topics.

Author : Janice Schofield Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Plants, Useful
ISBN : 0473181096

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Discovering Wild Plants by Janice Schofield Eaton Pdf

Author : Frances Kelso,Frances Kelso Graham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781463423957

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Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island by Frances Kelso,Frances Kelso Graham Pdf

"Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island" identifies the most common plants in the Kodiak archipelago. It includes edible and medicinal plants, with recipes for preparing for your table plus a special index section of medicinal plants with a brief description of their use. Native uses of these plants are emphasized, making the book somewhat of an ethnobotany. It's a good "armchair book" because it includes stories of gathering adventures, a section on the history of Ouzinkie, with stories and pictures, a full description and illustration of each plant, plus a "plant family index" with information about each plant family represented. Color and black and white photos enhance the pages. Take this book on foraging trips or enjoy reading it at home. Though focused on Spruce Island, these plants or a similar species can be found in many Alaskan locations.

Author : Janice J. Schofield,Janice Schofield Eaton
Publisher : Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Plants, Edible
ISBN : CORNELL:31924051744518

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Discovering Wild Plants by Janice J. Schofield,Janice Schofield Eaton Pdf

More than 130 plants (including trees, roots, wildflowers, herbs, seaweed, and mushrooms) from Alaska, Yukon Territory, through western Canada, to Washington, Oregon and northern California are profiled. Information provided includes precise botanical identification, history (New and Old World folk uses), harvest and habitat information, and recipes.

Author : Ernest Small
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466585942

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North American Cornucopia by Ernest Small Pdf

Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising for creating varieties needed to expand food production, and there are excellent prospects of generating new economically competitive crops from these natives. The inadequacy of current crops to meet the food demands of the world’s huge, growing population makes the potential of indigenous North American food plants even more significant. These plants can also generate crops that are more compatible with the ecology of the world, and many also have inherent health benefits. Presenting detailed scholarship, a thoroughly accessible style, and numerous entertaining anecdotes, North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants is a full-color book dedicated to the most important 100 native food plants of North America north of Mexico that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential. The introductory chapter reviews the historical development of North American indigenous crops and factors bearing on their future economic success. The rest of the book consists of 100 chapters, each dedicated to a particular crop. The book employs a user-friendly chapter format that presents the material in sections offering in-depth coverage of each plant. The first section of each chapter provides information on the scientific and English names of the plants, followed by a section on the geography and ecology of the wild forms, accompanied by a map showing the North American distribution. A section entitled "Plant Portrait" comprises a basic description of the plant, its history, and its economic and social importance. This is followed by "Culinary Portrait," concerned with food uses and culinary vocabulary. The chapters then provide an analysis of the economic future of each crop, discuss notable and interesting scientific or technological observations and accomplishments, and present extensive references.

Author : Horace Featherstone Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Food supply
ISBN : CORNELL:31924003623364

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Emergency Food Value of Alaskan Wild Plants by Horace Featherstone Drury Pdf

Contents: Important species Nutritional values Availability Collection and preparation Poisonous plants uggestions to instructors.

Author : Les Viereck
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781602231320

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Alaska Trees and Shrubs by Les Viereck Pdf

Alaska Trees and Shrubs has been the definitive work on the woody plants of Alaska for more than three decades. This new, completely revised second edition provides updated information on habitat, as well as detailed descriptions of every tree or shrub species in the state. New distribution maps reflect the latest survey data, while the keys, glossary, and appendix on non-native plants make this the most useful guide to Alaska trees and shrubs ever published.

Author : John G. Trelawny
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015084164337

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Wild Flowers of the Yukon, Alaska & Northwestern Canada by John G. Trelawny Pdf

Newly revised and updated in 2009! This essential guide is all you need to identify the beautiful flowering plants of Alaska, the Yukon and northwestern Canada.

Author : Delena Tull
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292754119

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Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest by Delena Tull Pdf

A guide to useful Southwestern wild plants, including recipes, teas, spices, dyes, medicinal uses, poisonous plants, fibers, basketry, and industrial uses. All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don’t know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color photos, this book includes the following special features: · Recipes for foods made from edible wild plants · Wild teas and spices · Wild plant dyes, with instructions for preparing the plants and dying wool, cotton, and other materials · Instructions for preparing fibers for use in making baskets, textiles, and paper · Information on wild plants used for making rubber, wax, oil, and soap · Information on medicinal uses of plants · Details on hay fever plants and plants that cause rashes · Instructions for distinguishing edible from poisonous berries Detailed information on poisonous plants, including poison ivy, oak, and sumac, as well as herbal treatments for their rashes

Author : Priscilla Russel Kari,Priscilla N. Russell
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781602234048

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Den'ina K'et'una/Tanaina Plantlore by Priscilla Russel Kari,Priscilla N. Russell Pdf

When Chris McCandless, immortalized in Into the Wild, headed into the Alaska wilderness, one of the books he took with him was Tanaina Plantlore, which he used to identify edible plants. While the book and subsequent movie has brought attention to the book for more than a decade, it draws on a thousand of years of knowledge. The Dena’ina (also called the Tanaina) Athabascan peoples in southcentral Alaska have made use of the varied plant life that grows in interior Alaska for generations and Tanaina Plantlore collects this extensve knowledge, giving phsycial and environmental descriptions with photographs to aid in identification. This book is the culmination of more than a decade of ethnobotanical study and provides accounts of the traditional lore associated with these plants based on a wealth of interviews with Dena’ina people. This new edition includes new graphical content consolidating practical plant information and traditional uses.

Author : Janice Schofield Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0882407546

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Beyond Road's End by Janice Schofield Eaton Pdf

Beyond Road's End offers a welcome escape from crowded cubicles and the fumes of freeway gridlock as readers tag along with Janice and Ed on their journey to build a new life on their own terms in rural Alaska. The adventurous couple came to Alaska from New Hampshire with dreams of living richly in the wilderness on ten dollars a day. Ed brought his experience as a builder, and Janice brought her New England work ethic. Together, they fell in love with the heartbreakingly beautiful landscape of the Far North. Part love story, part adventure, and part natural history, Beyond Road's End is a touching memoir of carving out a life in Alaska during the state's coming-of-age decade between the completion of the oil pipeline and the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Author : Traveler T Terpening,Traveler Terpening
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1841622982

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Alaska by Traveler T Terpening,Traveler Terpening Pdf

The only guide to feature the destinations in Alaska accessible by rail, car and ferry written by an author who grew up in Alaska and continues to live there today.

Author : Judy Kathryn Hall
Publisher : Windy Ridge Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111588948

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Native Plants of Southeast Alaska by Judy Kathryn Hall Pdf

A comprehensive field guide to native ferns, trees, shrubs, grasses, sedges, rushes and herbs found in Southeast and South-central Alaska. Includes: Detailed line drawings for all species Plant descriptions for more than 830 species Keys to family, genus and species Range and abundance information Flowering times Former and alternate taxonomy Food and medicinal uses as well as other information essential for plant enthusiasts, botanists, hikers and naturalists

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Animals
ISBN : PSU:000020750039

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Wildlife Abstracts by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pdf