Radical Botany

Maps important to Cascadian Native Plant studies

Cascadia bioregional Map – includes area defined as Cascadia:  British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California

First Nations

• First Nations of British Columbia and website about this group
• First Nations British Columbia– First Nations Baskets map from the Langley Centennial Museum located in Fort Langley, British Columbia.
• First Nations of Washington – Coastal tribes
• Key Tribal territories – Washington and Oregon
• First Nations of California

Where to find important plants in Cascadia – Maps

• British Columbia –Electronic Atlas of the plants of British Columbia. Large searchable database of native plants that produces an illustration, picture and map of where to find the plant.
• Oregon –Oregon Plant Atlas – The Oregon Flora Project through Oregon State University has an interactive mapping program which draws from a database of over 540,000 records to display plant distributions and the data behind each mappable point.
• Washington – Clickable map of native plants in Washington State compiled by the Washington native plant society
• Northern California – Jepson Flora Project Searchable Database creates maps of where the plants can be found

 Geology of Cascadia

Hydrology of Cascadia

– The hydrologic cycle of the Cascade mountains

– Water cycle in the Pacific Northwest – illustration of how plants are important to this cycle.  From Oregon State University  Sea Grant program -Robert Emanuel’s blog on Water, Climate and community on Oregon’s North Coast.

Geological maps

• British Columbia elevation map
• Oregon elevation map
• Washington elevation map
• Washington coast elevation map
• Northern California elevation map – actually a topographical map of all of California

 Missoula Flood – map and information about the huge flood that geologically shaped Washington and Oregon and left sand and gravel deposits that support many native plants.