Join Kristin Currin and Missy Rohs on a morning plant walk at Sam’s Walker Day Use Area near Skamania, WA to learn about the wide variety of non-native invasive plants and their uses for foods and medicine.
The surge of interest in foraging and wildcrafting has brought people closer to nature, but has also had a negative impact on native plant populations in the Columbia Gorge. Increasing demand has led to unsustainable extraction of some of our region’s most important native species that were once protected by their obscurity. However, many local non-native plant species introduced to North America offer wonderful alternatives and their harvesting can help control the spread of invasive plants.
This is a WA Native Plant Society sponsored event
Easy 1.2 mile gravel walking trail with very little elevation gain.
Meet at the Sam’s Walker Day Use Area Parking lot at 8:45 a.m.
A National Forest Pass is required for parking, or pay $5/day/vehicle at the trailhead.
Walk is limited to 12 people.
Registration is required: to sign up, or for more information contact Kim Gilmer at gilmerno.1@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE TOUR:
Kristin Currin is the coauthor of The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer (Timber Press, 2023) and cofounder of Humble Roots Nursery in Mosier, Oregon. Missy Rohs is a community herbalist and educator in Portland, Oregon and owner of the Arctos School of Herbal Studies, focusing on sustainable plant medicine, pragmatic skill-building, and community care.
A Northwest Forest Pass is required for parking, or pay $5/day/vehicle at the trailhead.