We're Going to Camassia!

Wednesday May 27 we are meeting at 3 at Flavia Hall to arrange carpooling to the Camassia Nature Preserve in West Linn. To prepare for this field trip wear long pants and long sleeved shirt because of potential exposure to poison oak. Do not wear open toed shoes and when you leave the preserve go home, take off all your clothes and put them in the washing machine and take a shower. Other than that, this will be fun! More information about Camassia and directions on how to get there can be found here:

Camassia Nature Preserve

So, what's a camassia? As we learned on the field trip to the native plants garden at Clackamas Community College, the Camas was a staple food of the original inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest. Meriwether Lewis in 1806 wrote of the Camassia, "at a short distance, the colour resembles lakes of bright, clear water." Read all about it here: Camassia