Sutton-Alpine in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska — Northwest (North America)

Wild Plants

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 13, 2024

1. Wild Plants Marker

Inscription.
Ahtna Hwt'aene' and Dena'ina Peoples have used over 100 local wild plants for everyday living tools, food, medicine, and ceremony. They believe that plants should be treated with respect and they often speak to plants while harvesting them.

Important food plants include fireweed, wild rhubarb, wild chives, ferns, chocolate lily, nettles, wild potato, wild sweet pea, bistort, and many berries.

Plants for medicine include false hellebore, cow parsnip, angelica, roseroot, wormwood, yarrow, wild geranium, larkspur, and coltsfoot.

Spruce trees are important for many uses including: pitch for caulking shelters and boats; roots for weaving baskets, nets, and snares; boughs for mattresses; lumber for fashioning sleds, boats, tools, and buildings; firewood; as well as medicinal and edible uses. Birch trees are frequently used for bowls and baskets, cradle boards, roofing, flooring, food storage, canoes, and many other implements as well as medicine.

Erected by Alpine Historical Park.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Environment • Horticulture & Forestry • Indigenous Peoples and Communities

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Location. 61° 42.63′ N, 148° 52.464′ W. Marker is in Sutton-Alpine, Alaska, in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. It is on Glenn Highway (State Highway 1 at milepost 61.6) east of Chickaloon Way, on the left when traveling east. Marker is in Alpine Historical Park. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 11266 Chickaloon Way, Sutton AK 99674, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Alaska Railroad Corridor,

in the Athabascan Region,

in the Mat-Su Valley,

and in Southcentral Alaska.

It is also on the American Pacific Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Pacific Rim,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Russian Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Nay'dini'aa Na' Xay Hnax (a few steps from this marker); Katie Wade Memorial Garden (a few steps from this marker); Wall Tent (within shouting distance of this marker); Petrified Wood (within shouting distance

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 13, 2024

2. Wild Plants Marker

of this marker); Hitchcock Cabin (within shouting distance of this marker); Spirit House (within shouting distance of this marker); There's Coal in Them There Hills (within shouting distance of this marker); If You Build It, They Will Come (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Sutton-Alpine.

More about this marker. The marker is near the Athabascan Winter Lodge.

Also see . . . Alpine Historical Park. (Submitted on August 25, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 13, 2024

3. Wild Plants Marker

Athabascan Winter Lodge image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 13, 2024

4. Athabascan Winter Lodge

Credits. This page was last revised on August 25, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 25, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 129 times since then and 5 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 25, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.