Surviving salal plants
Salal (Gaualtheriqa shallon), a culturally important berry-bearing plant to the Haida people as a source of food and medicine, grows on a disintegrating mortuary pole, K'uuna Llnagaay (Skedans), Haida Gwaii, BC. A century ago, the shoreline would have contained a dense thicket of salal, seedling trees and other vegetation that we would have had to fight our way through to get into the woods, which would have been packed with with ferns, berry bushes, shrubs, and small trees. Now, the deer have destroyed everything within reach. The salal growing on this pole has survived only because it was out of reach of their rapacious appetite.
11/07/2021 www.allenfotowild.com
Surviving salal plants
Salal (Gaualtheriqa shallon), a culturally important berry-bearing plant to the Haida people as a source of food and medicine, grows on a disintegrating mortuary pole, K'uuna Llnagaay (Skedans), Haida Gwaii, BC. A century ago, the shoreline would have contained a dense thicket of salal, seedling trees and other vegetation that we would have had to fight our way through to get into the woods, which would have been packed with with ferns, berry bushes, shrubs, and small trees. Now, the deer have destroyed everything within reach. The salal growing on this pole has survived only because it was out of reach of their rapacious appetite.
11/07/2021 www.allenfotowild.com