Wildlife
Cous
Lomatium cous
Habitat
Mouth of Walla Walla River
Conservation
Apparently secure
Cous roots gathered in early spring, pounded into cakes, then sun-dried were diet staple of tribes on Columbia Plateau.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Cous
Aug
25
1804
Clark: August 25, 1804
... this blumb is about double the Size of the Common and Deliscously
flavouredThose plains are leavel without much water and no timber
all the timber on the Stone R...
Apr
19
1805
Lewis: April 19, 1805
... rises higher then 3 feet.the wind detained us
through the couse of this day, tho we were fortunate in having placed
ourselves in a safe harbour. the party killed...
Apr
26
1805
Lewis: April 26, 1805
...pen
plains. he saw several of the bighorned anamals in the couse of his walk;
but they were so shy that he could not get a shoot at them; he found a
large horn o...
Jun
12
1805
Lewis: June 12, 1805
...nce of one or two miles; after
gaining the leavel plain my couse was a litte to the West of S. W.having
traveled about 12 miles by 9 in the morning, the sun becam...
Jun
23
1805
Clark: June 23, 1805
...eration
and every halt, those not employed in reparing the Couse; are asleep in a
moment, maney limping from the Soreness of their feet Some become fant for
a fi...
Jun
27
1805
Lewis: June 27, 1805
...amp.
Capt. Clark completed a draught of the river with the couses and distances
from the entrance of the Missouri to Ft. Mandan, which we intend
depositing here ...
Jul
6
1805
Lewis: July 6, 1805
Saturday July 6th 1805 In the couse of last night had several showers of
hail and rain attended with thunder and lightning. about day...
Jul
17
1805
Lewis: July 17, 1805
...n cops either in the oppen or timbered
lands near the watercouses. the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and
resembles in it's form that of the red currant common...
Jul
18
1805
Lewis: July 18, 1805
...as far up those streams as he could discover them in their
couse towards the mountains. he also saw many bighorn anamals on the
clifts of the mountains. not far b...
Oct
10
1805
Clark: October 10, 1805
...oudy and we were disapointed The Indians
Came down all the Couses of this river on each Side on horses to view us
as we were desending,The man whome we saw at the...
Oct
22
1805
Clark: October 22, 1805
... and they go to war to their first villages in 12 days, the Couse they
pointed is S. E. or to the S of S. E. we are visited by great numbers of
Indians to Day to ...
Feb
16
1806
Lewis: February 16, 1806
...here there are copses of brush and underwood near the
watercouses. they are by no means as plenty on this side of the rocky
mountains as on the other, nor do I be...
Feb
20
1806
Lewis: February 20, 1806
...to be the effect of a series of
uninterupted friendly intercouse, but the well known treachery of the
natives by no means entitle them to such confidence, and we ...
Mar
11
1806
Clark: March 11, 1806
...lso procured a fiew and brought
with him. The Deer of this Coust differ from the Common Deer, fallow Deer
or Mule Deer as has beformentiond.
The Mule Deer we have...
May
9
1806
Lewis: May 9, 1806
...tall and open growth of the longleafed
pine. near the watercouses the hills are steep and lofty tho are covered
with a good soil not remarkably stony and possess ...