WPI RESOURCES
Welcome WPI 2022! Below you will find additional resources for your class year by month. We are very excited you are with us this year and hope these resources will help your journey!
WPI Locations:
MARCH: Linne Doran, Wilderness Awareness School Land
APRIL: Linne Doran and Highland Farm (Rachael Witt’s Land)
JUNE : Blue Heron Farm
JULY: Camp Epona (more details to come with email)
AUGUST: Lord Hill Park (South Entrance) and Linne Doran
SEPTEMBER: Oak Creek Wildlife Area (Hoover Canyon Field)
OCTOBER: Linne Doran
March 2022 Power Point Presentations:
PLANT & TREES SPECIES JOURNAL ACCOUNTS:
Handouts:
Plant Family of the Month: Mustards/Brassicaceae
Elpel Profile of Mustards (also in your text)
WA Native Mustards: WTU Herbarium/Burke Museum
Ethical Harvesting and Rare, Threatened/ Endangered Plant Lists:
Ethical Harvesting Guidelines: This is a copy of what we have to send to local Wildlife Areas, Forest Service, etc. to allow us to harvest on their managed lands.
USFS PNW Pacific Northwest Region Rare Plant Profiles
More Links for Plant Evolution and Life Cycle:
These are from https://ohioplants.org/plant-kingdom-intro/
VIDEOS:
Super Plant Dorky Presentation by Royal Botanic Society on The Origins of Flowering Plants… Love it! and it may be too much for plant beginners! Use at your own risk…:>)
Botany in a Day Plant ID Introduction-Thomas Elpel (and you don’t need the cards for this class but knock yourself out if you want then! I am the last person to ask someone else to NOT buy a plant related learning tool…hypocrite I would be!)
Washington Native Plant Society-These are AWESOME. If you can check these out over this year as your interest peaks, these are some great botanists. Consider becoming a member! They have great field trips!
Alex Lowe, PhD-Washington State Paleobotanist-AWESOME Presentation
APRIL RESOURCES:
Poison Hemlock Resources: https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/pdfs/poison_hemlock_2015.pdf
https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/poison-hemlock
Asters/Composite Link:
MAY RESOURCES:
Saxifrage Family Link:
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/browse.php?Family=Saxifragaceae
Carrot Family Link: https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/browse.php?Family=Apiaceae&Classification=Vascular%20Plants&BrowseBy=Family&OrderBy=SciName&Display=Descriptions
AMAZING site for Eastside Plants: http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/plants/
Methow Interpretive Center: https://www.methowvalleyinterpretivecenter.com/
Two Rivers Film: http://www.tworiversfilm.com/2riv_trailer.htm
JUNE RESOURCES:
Lushootseed Resources on Plants
Vi Hilbert and the Cedar Root Basket Story
NPS North Cascades National Park Plant Prop
Super Cool Resource for Tree Map (ArcGIS)
ETHNOBOTANY FIELD GUIDE: UNIVERSITY OF OR:
JULY RESOURCES:
Local Seaweeds Expert: http://www.ryandrum.com
AUGUST RESOURCES: