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Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest, patches of berries and other edible plants may be remnants of Indian/First Nation settlements: https://www.science.org/con
by tschuy 3y ago
Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest, patches of berries and other edible plants may be remnants of Indian/First Nation settlements:
https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-...
- bozhark 3y agoSo… the entire PMW near water?
- Supermancho 3y agoMuch of the Pacific Northwest (coast, including lake coast) is extremely rocky with scant amounts of sand. Much of it, heavily wooded, even today. A number of invasive species (like the Himalayan Blackberry) have muddled sites, that would have been obvious, based solely on plant sign.
- GenericDev 3y agoDamn Luther Burbank[1]! [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/29/491797791/the-strange-twisted-story-behind-seattles-blackberries https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/29/491797791/th...
- ruined 3y agowow, i always thought that park just had low effort landscaping, but i guess the dense thorny thickets are intentional
- pugworthy 3y agoMore recent but one can see lots of daffodils around old homestead sites in various places in the Willamette Valley. Also old apple trees in the middle of nowhere .
- Loughla 3y agoWay more recent, but if you see forsythias in the Midwest without a house around, there was a settlers home there at some point. We found an old foundation after digging around where there were forsythias growing in the woods on our place after being keyed into that one.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 3y agoThis is particularly noticable along the Pony Express Trail in the desolate areas of the west. Everywhere there is water there is a big patch of currants or chokecherries