RECOMMENDED READING & RESOURCES
For a full list of footnotes to this book, visit www.westmarginpress.com/book-details/9781513262789/alaskas-wild-plants-revised-edition/
ALASKA
Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, and Kevin Jernigan. Nunam Qaingani Nautulit Nertukngait Iinruktukngait-llu Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska. Calista Education and Culture, Inc. April 2019.
Fortuine, Robert, M.D., M.P.H. Alaska Medicine. “The Use of Medicinal Plants by the Alaska Natives.” Vol. 30, No. 6, November/December 1988.
Garza, Dolly. Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant
Garibaldi, Ann. Medicinal Flora of the Alaska Natives: A Compilation of Knowledge from Literary Sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik Traditional Healing Methods Using Plants. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Natural Heritage Program, 1999.
Hultén, Eric. Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968.
Jones, Anore. Plants That We Eat. Nauriat Nigiñaqtuat, From the traditional Wisdom of the Iñupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska. Fairbanks Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2010.
Kari, Priscilla Russell. Tanaina Plantlore, Dena’ina K’et’una. Alaska Region: National Park Service, 1987.
Kelso, Fran. Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island: Foraging in the Kodiak Archepelago, AuthorHouse, 2011
Laursen, Gary A. and Neil McArthur. Alaska’s Mushrooms: A Wide-Ranging Guide. Portland: Graphic Arts Books, 2016.
Pratt, Verna E. Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers. Anchorage: Alaskakrafts Publishing, 1989.
Schofield, Janice J. Discovering Wild Plants. Anchorage: Eaton/Todd Communications, 2014.
Viereck, Eleanor G. Alaska’s Wilderness Medicines. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1991.
EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS
Brown, Tom, Jr. Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants. New York: Berkley Books, 1985.
Buhner, Stephen Harrod. Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers. Boulder, Colorado: Siris Books, 1998.
Elpel, Thomas J. Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. Pony, MT: Hops Press, 2013.
Gladstar, Rosemary. Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs. N. Adams Mass: Storey Press, 2012.
Goldfrank, L.R. (ed). Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies. 7th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Gray, Beverly. The Boreal Herbal. Yukon: Aurora Borealis Press, 2011.
Harrington, H.D. Western Edible Wild Plants. The University of New Mexico Press, 1972.
Hellson, John C. Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians. Ottawa, Ontario: National Museums of Canada, 1974.
Kletter, Christa and Monika Kriechbaum (ed). Tibetan Medicinal Plants. Germany: Medpharm, 2001.
Li, Shih-Chen. Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1973.
Moerman. D. Native American Ethnobotany. Oregon: Timber Press, 1998.
Turner, N.J., L.C. Thompson, and M.T. Thompson Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia: Royal British Columbia Museum, 1990.
Small, Ernest. North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants. New York: CRC Press: 2014.
NATIVE, INTRODUCED & INVASIVE SPECIES
Benfield, William. At War with Nature. Amazon, 2015.
Buhner, Stephen Harrod. Healing Lyme. New Mexico: Raven Press, 2016.
Orion, Tao. Beyond the War on Invasive Species. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015.
Pearce, Fred. The New Wild. Duxford, UK: Icon Books, 2016.
Scott, Timothy Lee. Invasive Plant Medicine. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2010.
WEBSITES (mentioned in citations)
Plant Identification, Edible Plants, Weed Ecology, Mushrooms, and more: www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
American Botanical Council, “Your source for reliable herbal medicine information”: www.herbalgram.com
Ryan Drum aka “Fucus man” articles: www.ryandrum.com/articles.htm
Seaweeds of Alaska: www.seaweedsofalaska.com
Herbs A-Z (some Alaskan species) by Medical Herbalist Richard Whelan: www.rjwhelan.co.nz
Finnish herbalist Henriette Kress’ “bark side” herbal information site: www.henriettes-herb.com
Alaskan flower and environmental essences: alaskanessences.com
Online classes for plant identification: www.botanyeveryday.com/online-classes
Green Deane’s photo-illustrated cattail preparation and much more: www.eattheweeds.com/cattails-a-survival-dinner/
BLOGS (An assortment of wild foods blogs referenced.)
Wild food, wild medicine, wild living, and the old ways of doing and being: monicawilde.com
“Food and medicine from nature”: www.alaskafloatsmyboat.com/food-and-medicine-from-nature
“Foraging resources, including specifics on fermented fireweed tea”: honest-food.net/foraging-recipes/
“Welcome to wild food heaven”: www.gallowaywildfoods.com
“The forager’s feast”: www.ledameredith.com
Photo-illustrated birch syrup process: joybileefarm.com/birch-syrup/
“Adventures of a 21st century forager”: fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com
Alan Bergo’s recipe for yarrow and much more: foragerchef.com/cooking-with-yarrow/
ONLINE VIDEOS (Illustrating processes mentioned in Alaska’s Wild Plants)
The process of roasting cleavers for coffee: youtu.be/cLYWhMDhwDs
Making birch syrup: alaskabirchsyrup.com/birch-syrup-videos/
Making birch bark flour: video-shield.mediavine.com/video/upload/sp_mediavine_hd_h264/v1554830606/looche3scdtytf1ywins.m3u8
Make juniper beverage: balkanlunchbox.com/fermented-juniper-berry-juice-smreka/
Make juniper beverage: thetartart.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/smreka/
Cleaning fiddlehead ferns: youtu.be/O1O67-TUogE