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Hi Mary,
From your description it seems possible that someone tried to establish
a cranberry bog here which as I recall needs level, preferably sandy or
peaty soil, and some way to flood or drain the cropped area. Have you talked
to any of the nearby older residents ? Does the dike prevent drainage from
the wetland or is it a spoil bank of material removed from the canals ?
Yt, DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Macaulay" <Marymacaulay@hotmail.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Neolithic thread to Nova Scotia
> Saggitaria latifolia Nancy
> I have found a large root garden divided into bloodroot, ostrich fern
> segments and a longitudinal pond full on duck potato on one site. But this
> is nothing to the scale of the canalled wetlands. The canals are a little
> over knee deep. They are connected by a narrower shallow channel which is
> bounded by a dyke. The connecting channel is full if brassenia shreberi.
> Watershield. It seems to prevent the channel from drying out like Saran
> Wrap. I wonder if this was purposeful?
>
> With kindest regards
> Mary (Macaulay)
> marymacaulay@hotmail.com
> @maryemacaulay
>
>
>> On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Nancy P Dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is a duck potato? Tubers from Cattails or Pickerel Weed? We used to
>> boil up something like this we dug along the lakeshore. Do not remember
>> if it tasted good.
>>
>> Nancy
>> E Dalhousie, Kings Co.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Mary Macaulay <Marymacaulay@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This summer I've been exploring some very interesting wetlands between
>>> the Wallace and Pugwash rivers. If you do a satellite view google maps
>>> you can see at least 4 of them have been significantly canalled.
>>> Remarkably so. One has huge parallel canals. Are these preacadian? The
>>> native people in this area were known for trading duck potato. Did they
>>> farm it?
>>>
>>> With kindest regards
>>> Mary (Macaulay)
>>> marymacaulay@hotmail.com
>>> @maryemacaulay
>>>
>
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