Free lessons below, with in-depth references, provide an introduction to the Cascadia Floristic Region’s history – the coast lands to the west of the Cascade Crest from San Francisco Bay to the Aleutians. (Plants, like early inhabitants, did/do not recognize political boundaries). On-line lessons contain elementary, secondary and college level questions (answers found in the prose, photos, or URLs respectively). The structure is (CPA) NASBA’s, self-teaching students of all ages. Crowdsourcing feedback and assistance are always appreciated.
Select a State or Province
Washington Oregon Utah British Columbia
California Alberta Idaho Wyoming
Colorado Montana Alaska New Mexico
All, as plants don’t recognize political boundaries
Since Time Immemorial to a Melting Pot
Homo Sapiens in the Americas
History, the Search to Live Fully Realized Lives
History Also Starts with Food & Shelter
Ocean Currents
The then Unknown
Rising Shorelines
Quileute, Quinault, or Hoh: Stone Age Peoples
Stone Age to Use of Metals
Camas & Wapato, but no Potatoes
The 3 Sisters & Potato
Underwater History
Salmon and Wildlife
Ethnobotanicals
PNW Indian “Tribes,” the Salish
So Many Languages
Tsunamis & Shoalwater Bay’s Willapa
Swinomish Middens
Extinctions, the Cayuse
Early Native American Conflicts
Early Plagues
Makah & Norse Longhouses
Yakama & Sami Tepees
Spanish, & Japanese Iron, the Quinault
The Chinook & Clatsop
Population Estimates
Nuu-chah-nulth & First Nations’ Fears
Search for Longitude & Latitude
Explorers & Exploiters & the Fur Trade
Artifact Spanish Coin
the Spanish at Nootka Bay
Hispanics
Otter
Portuguese
Russians
North West America
Beaver Treaties
Chinese
Welsh
North West Company
Lewis & Clark
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hawaiians
French Canadians & Metis
Scots
Chimakum, Snoqualmie & Duwamish
Territories, Reservations, Treaties & Mining
Mining
Pig War
Sisters of Providence
Irish
African Americans
Japanese
Nisqually
Elimination of Forest Groves
Elimination of Forest Glades
Pioneer Blockhouses
The Kake & Isaac Ebey
Fox Island
Romani
Italian Miners
Cascadia History vs. Wild Far West’s
The Homestead Act, Farms & Pioneer Flood
Norwegians
English Logging
No More Giants
Swedes
Pilchuck, Snohomish (Tulalip)
Imported Feuds – H&H
Brick Streets
Root Cellars
Danish Haubarg
Relic Rescues
Dutch
Ukrainians
Germans
English Remittancemen
Early Wives
Icelandic
Finnish Sauna
Polish Immigrants
Town of Pilchuck
Chinese Exclusion Act
Freeborn Village
The Big Burn
Colville
Property Taxes
Statehood, Constitutions, the West Owners
Model Ts
Armenians
Ku Klux Klan
Elimination of Tribes
Haida
Basic Utilities
Currencies
A Treaty Topic Neglected
Pilchuck Glass School
Ancient History: Boys in a Boat
Once Grey Hills
Ethnobotanicals
Abandoned Dreams
Nootka Island Today
Monocultures
A Sea of Clones
Challenges Post 1945
Climate Change
Fungi & Plagues
Plastic Waste
Plutonium
Herbicides
Our Careless Generation
A Chance to Rewild the West
African Americans
Camas & Wapato, but no Potatoes
Currencies
Early Wives
Elimination of Forest Glades
Elimination of Forest Groves
Elimination of Tribes
Ethnobotanicals
Freeborn Village
Land Claims before the Homestead Act
Pig War
Property Taxes
Yakama & Sami Tepees
Mining/Other Wastes
Railways, Roads, Schools & Churches
Mosquito Fleet
Brick Streets
Cease Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
Chinese
Chinese Exclusion Act
Extinctions, the Cayuse
Imported Feuds – H&H
Japanese
Ku Klux Klan
Middens
Milltown
Model Ts
No ReBar
Who killed Isaac Ebey?
Cattle Grazing
Parks, Wars, & the Great Depression
Armenians
Big Burn
Biodiversity
Killing the Giants
Makah & Norse Longhouses
McMurray Fir
No More Giants
Nootka Bay
Nootka Island Today Once
Grey Hills
Root Cellars
The Big Burn
WashingTons of Topsoil
Plastics in Lakes
Industry, Technology & the Careless
Ancient History: Boys in a Boat
Biodiversity’s Enemies
iodiversity’s Friends
Challenges Post 1945
Fox Island
Land Use
Meet Threats to Mankind’s Existence
Relic Rescues
Restoring Salmon and Wildlife
Re-task Use of Western Public Lands
Salmon and Wildlife
Sequoias When the State is Wrong
Clear Cutting
The Wistful Present & Future Generations
Change Land Use Focus Forever
Re-task Use of Western Public Lands
Selective, no Clear-cutting of Forests
Cease Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
Public Land-use like a Cancer
Meet Threats to Mankind’s Existence
Lowering West Wind Temperatures
Question Going Forward
Beacon of Light?
Biodiverse Corridors
Biodiversity’s Friends
Guerilla Planting
Water, The Need for
When the State is Wrong
Rowing in the Same Direction
Who Speaks for the Younger Generation
Thanking John Hauberg
Thinking of Dietrich & Sophie
in Bonhoeffer’s Name
Beacon of Light?
Biodiverse Corridors
Cancer Survivors Act
Cascadia History vs. Wild Far West’s
Change Land Use Focus Forever
Conflicts of Interest
Forest Glade
Forest Grove
History, the Search to Live Fully Realized Lives
Including those Religious
Lowering West Wind Temperatures
Rewild the West
Water, The Need for
Extreme Heat
Monocultures
Plutonium
Population Estimates
Public Land-use like a Cancer
Question for the Older Generation (9150)
Question Going Forward
Selective, no Clear-cutting of Forests
Treaties
Tree Huggers
Who Speaks for the Younger Generation (9240)