Ethnobotanical mitigation, Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma, California

i Efhnohotanical Mitigation Warm Springs Dam - L a k e Sonoma C a l ifo rn ia David W. Pe r i Scot t M. P a t t e r so n Jenn ie L. Goodr ich L M3 R ARY JAN 1 5 Í1385 I Bureau ot Reclamation Denver, C o ln r*^ BUREAU OF RECLAMATION DENVER LIBRARY w\ TEDlSlöfi ETHNOBOTANICAL MITIGATION; WARM SPRINGS DAM - LAKE SONOMA, CALIFORNIA by DAVID W. PERI SCOTT M. PATTERSON JENNIE L. GOODRICH Chapters 1 and 7 by RICHARD N. LERNER Edited by ELGAR HILL and RICHARD N. LERNER Prepared by ''l/Elgar Hill, Environmental Analysis & Planning'Z/ Penngrove, California JULY 1982 2nd printing, May 1983 92012188 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Peri, David W., 1939- Ethnobotanical mitigation, Warm Springs Dam— Lake Sonoma, California. "Prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District"— P. "July 1982." Bibliography: p. 1. Porno Indians— Basket making. 2. Porno Indians — Religion and mythology. 3. Ethnobotany— California— Sonoma County. 4. Indians of North America— California— Sonoma County— Basket making. 5. Indians of North America— California— Sonoma County— Religion and mythology. I. Patterson, Scott M., 1952- . II. Goodrich, Jennie. III. Hill, Elgar. IV. Lernet, Richard N. V. United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District. VI. Title. E99.P65P47 1982 639.9?9 82-16336 ABSTRACT This is one of a number of cultural resource and vegetative management reports, sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, designed to mitigate for adverse impacts on and describe the manage­ment of the cultural and natural resources of the Warm Springs Dam - Lake Sonoma project area, Sonoma County, California. This report describes the events leading up to the Corps' ethnobotanical research in the project area; experimental transplant program which was concerned in particular with two plants significant in making Pomoan baskets (sedge, Carex barbare, and white willow, Salix hindsiana ) , and two plants significant in Pomoan religion and