At 09:40 AM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Great posting, Richard. We used to eat wild blackberries on the Oregon
>Coast. My dad ate a lot of huckleberries in the Walla Walla country. BTW,
>has anyone ever tried Camas root? My book  mentioned it as a food of the
>Columbia River tribes.


The Indians ate a lot of camas root, and it grows wild in my area of
Oregon. However, there is something called the Death Camas that looks, to
an uneducated eye, just the same. Be sure you know what you're doing if
you decide to go primitive and forage for camas!

SusanK