PlantManagementInNWNorthAmerica Flashcards
1
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Guest lecturer
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Fiona Chambers
2
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Phenological indicators in the environment for seasonal events
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- Ex. Birds arriving
3
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Red Cedar
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- Rot-resistant
- Keystone species
- only here for 5000 years based on pollen records
4
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The word ‘Wilderness’
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- Doesn’t exist in FN language
- ‘Terra Nullis’ is not a distinction (nobody’s land)
5
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Cultivation on coast
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- Many perennial plants, not much annual tilling required
6
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Indian Spaghetti
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- James Douglas saw acres of clovers when arriving in Victoria’s Clover Point
- Plant has complex carbohydrates, but causes indigestion
7
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What do dark colours in plants indicate? Give an example
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- Dark colours indicate health effects
- Lycopene pigments in tomato
8
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What are 2 examples of FN cultivation?
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- Pruned ‘orchard’
- Intertidal clam gardens
9
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FN and sugar
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- Sugar causes strong mental response
- FN co-evolved with low starch diet, may not have stronger response to more sugar in diet
10
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How many berries could a FN family harvest in one season?
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- 200,000 salal berries in one season
11
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FN use of fertilizers
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- Heiltsuk people used fertilizers (added nitrogen, calcium, potassium, phosphorous)
- Used carcasses (fish and animals), salmon remains going back to plants in ecosystem
- Chopped up clam shells for calcium, neutralizing plant pH in acidic soil
12
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How can plant resources be used and maintained
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- Anthropogenic ecosystems with tilling and pruning (Camas growth, death camas removed; pruned plants better after disturbance)
- Perceived abundance of plants (Blenkinsop valley called a lake due to blue of camas flowers)
- Work involved not seen
- Meristem bark removed w/o killing trees
13
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What does ‘Keeping it living’ mean?
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- Not adversely affecting plant and animal populations by over-harvesting or other damage
- Maintaining the ability of the plants and animals to continue to grow and reproduce
- Maintaining the health and well-being of all the plants and animals in an ecosystem
- Maintaining the knowledge, skills, and world-views that support sustainable resource use
14
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How can plant resources be used and yet maintained?
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- By not exceeding the carrying capacity of the plant populations (don’t harvest or damage more than can be repaired or replaced)
- By working with natural reproductive and regenerative processes of plants and plant populations to maintain growth and productivity
15
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Meristem Bank
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- Meristem is embryonic plant tissue that is actively dividing
- Found at tips of stems and roots
- Bank is tissue that has capability, under right circumstances, to become meristem (notes along stem or trunk)
