[MPWG] NEWS: Native plants picked for info (Canada)

[Olivia Kwong]

Here's a very short blurb about a project that's just started in Canada. 
If anyone has more information or spots more news on it, please post to 
the list as I think MPWG members would be interested in knowing more about 
it.

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http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/07/13/1681957-sun.html

Native plants picked for info
By TOM VAN DUSEN

MOOSE CREEK -- Canada's Natives have always known there was good medicine 
in many native plant species.

Now aboriginal representatives will work with South Nation Conservation 
and other partners to prepare a "Naturalized Knowledge Systems Ethnobotany 
Inventory," the first comprehensive medicinal plant catalogue in Ontario. 
Today, 11 a.m., at nearby Sand Road Sugar Camp, the Ontario Trillium 
Foundation will present a cheque for $147,000 to fund the two-year project 
with Native drummers marking the occasion.