Healing Gardens - A Habitat

Accomplishments: Winter 2006

Laura Donohue — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:22:51 -0700

Lonnie: Ammending the Soil: This is in the Beargrass Savanna site, but we ammended both sites.

The South Puget Sound Glacial Outwash Prairie Ecosystem

Laura Donohue — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:35:34 -0700

(Note: this essay was printed in the Cooper Point Journal, Thursday March 8, 2007)

The South Puget Sound Glacial Outwash Prairie Ecosystem

Think about a flat forested area or farm field around here, and allow your vision to lapse into time machine mode to meld back to 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age. This entire area was covered by glaciers. Olympia was the borderline of the glacier’s reach in the Pac NW. The ice scoured the land and captured sand and gravel, rocks and boulders within the ice. When the ice melted, sand and gravel “outwashed”, making our area unique geologically.

Prairie Plants that have been added to the Camas Prairies LHG site in Winter of 2006

Laura Donohue — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:23:45 -0700

Plants donated by The Nature Conservancy

REFERENCES

Tracy Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:01:58 -0800

Pojar, Jim, and Andy MacKinnon. Revised Plants of The Pacific Northwest Coast. Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.

Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of The Pacific West. Sante Fe, NM: Red Crane Books, Inc., 1993.

Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of The Mountain West. Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Lincoff, Gary, and Alfred A. Knopf. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. New York: Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1995.

Orr, Robert T., and Nancy B. Orr. Mushrooms of Western North America. London, England: University of California Press, Ltd., and Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1979.

INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE FUNGI

Tracy Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:50:41 -0800

Chicken of the Woods

LATIN NAME: Polyporus sulphureus

FAMILY: Polyporaceae

INTRODUCTION TO PRESENT AND FUTURE PLANTS

Tracy Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:45:37 -0800

Kinnikinnick

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS

Tracy Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:44:33 -0800

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

We have become familiar and comfortable with the layout of our site
We have identified and become familiar with the vegetation at our site and have decided which plants do not belong there and chosen new ones to take their place
We have begun to implement a plan to restore the site such as sod removal, log inoculation, and the addition of new plants
The dead pine has been removed and we have chosen to leave the other semi-failing pine for effect
We have attempted a culturing of the fungi that inhabits the site, that failed due to culture contamination
We have begun to choose our procurement options for the new plants and fungi

GOALS:

CURRENT PLANT INTRODUCTION

Tracy Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:42:17 -0800

Pinus contorta var. latifolia

Lodgepole Pine

SITE DESCRIPTION

Tracy Wilson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:22:25 -0800

Dry Woodland Habitat at Evergreen Long House

Description:

Welcome to the Dry Woodlands! Where Lodgepole Pines and Chickens of the Wood live in happy harmony together. We have a 20'-25' X 27' dry woodland area that we will be nursing back to health. There are 6 Lodgepole Pines (one was completely dead and has been removed), and one Douglas Fir tree in the back. In the center of the site, there sits a dead log that had Chicken mushrooms (Chicken of the Woods) growing out of it when we first saw it. These are a type of Polypore and are of choice edibility. The entire site is covered in what appears to be Perennial Ryegrass and in the grass there are weeds and some Himalayan Blackberry vines. There is an invasive crabgrass that has not been identified.

Tobacco (Nicotiana spp.)

Anna Thirkield — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:47:46 -0800