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Weekend #4: Southwestern Washington


  • Southwestern Washington Tenino, WA US (map)

Location: South Puget Sound (Billy Frank Jr. Wildlife Reserve, Millersylvania State Park, Garry Oak Prairie). Overnight camp.

  • Travel south to Olympia area

  • Plant walks covering edible, medicinal and wildlife plants as well as utilitarian uses. Focus on oak prairie and wetland ecosystems

  • Focus on the role fire plays in habitat restoration. As well as discussing how traditional people’s relationship with fire to tend the land.

  • Ecological impacts of fire suppression and colonization 

  • Sit spot in Garry Oak Savannah

  • Indigenous land management with fire