Answer:Lewis and Clark’s journals tell us Native Americans favored salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) and wild strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) over salal, but they ate those berries fresh because they were too soft to dry. Preserving salal berries for winter consumption ensured a healthy intake of nutrition during the long winter. Lewis and Clark also recorded some roots were eaten and others preserved in the summer for winter use.
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