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Article: Edible-plant notebook.(edible wild plants)(includes safety tip)
- Article from:
- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For nearly 30 years I've collected facts, tips and first-hand observations on edible wild plants. They deal with the general subject of plant lore and contain specific but widely applicable information that might prove helpful to anyone interested in the fascinating subject of wild edibles. The following notes are from my field diaries, with a few remarks added for clarity and elaboration.
Supplementals: Western Montana, early spring 1977. Yesterday in the Bitterroot, Larry Dean Olsen (author of Outdoor Survival Skills, with whom I was studying wilderness survival) surprised me by saying that the modern human digestive tract cannot function very well or very long ...