1. Botany of Smexws (Smuggler’s Slough)
Cathy Ballew, Robindawn Hamilton, Sheila (Si?ic) McCoy & Terry Phair
Northwest Indian College, Lummi Nation, Bellingham, WA
Summer 2011
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Acknowledgements
Funding by TCUP, Lummi Natural Resources Department, Charlotte Clausing, LaBelle Urbanec, Mark Moss (John Rombold) (Juack Dunn), Brian D. Compton, Ph.D., etc.