High Elevation Plant Use: Reviewing the impetus for traditional use of natural resources in the Alpine regions of Olympic National Park
Wegmann A. 2000. High Elevation Plant Use: Reviewing the impetus for traditional use of natural resources in the Alpine regions of Olympic National Park. Olympic National Park. Port Angeles, WA
In order to summarize existing information and more clearly represent the connections between plant collection and highcountry use by aboriginal peoples, this report will identify ethnobotanical information related to subalpine and alpine plants found within the boundaries of Olympic National Park. Over the past year, ethnobotanical information has been collected and entered into the National Park Service's Ethnographic Resource Inventory database. This information will provide the foundational information for queries on alpine and subalpine plants. All alpine and subalpine plant resources with documented use values for local tribes will be identified and their uses fully described. Plant resources that occur within Olympic National Park, and for which we have no local ethnobotanical information will be explored by using information on the use of corresponding plants by British Colombian indigenous groups (Turner 1971). The primary objectives of this project are as follows: 1. To outline the relationship between highcountry plants (alpine and subalpine) and varying modes of indigenous resource use (food, medicinal, manufacture). The hypothesis driving this portion of the project is, "Plant resources are the primary impetus behind forays into the highcountry by indigenous groups that traditionally subsisted on land that is now within Olympic National Park's boundaries" 2. To explore the feasibility of using a vegetative patch map consisting of resources traditionally used by indigenous groups as a predictive model for locating archeological sites 3. To summarize information on prehistoric swidden agriculture, and the use of prairie and wetland plants by peninsular indigenous groups (indigenous groups traditionally and currently residing on the Olympic Peninsula).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Wegmann, A.exander
- Date of Issue
- 2000
- Publisher
- Olympic National Park
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Alpine, ethnobotanical plant use, Olympic Peninsula, Subalpine