I am considering acquiring the 8 DVD Plant Walk Series with Mors Kochanski. Do you think it's a good start for learning this stuff? Ovbiously it's not sufficient, one needs real world practice. Did you take a bushcraft class at Karamat?

The plants identified:

Silverweed
Marsh Hedge Nettle
Plantain
Brown Eyed Susan
Yellow Ladies Slipper
Meadow Buttercup
Alpine Bistort
Pink Pussytoes
Cream-Colored Peavine
Purple Vetch or Common Vetch
Canada Thistle
Arrowleaf and Palmated Coltsfoot
Sundew
Round Leaf Orchid
Caraway
Ox-Eye Daisy
Wire Rush
Macoun's Buttercup
Heart-Leaved Alexanders
Blue- Eyed Grass
Common Red Paint Brush
Alpine Milk-Vetch
Bear Root
Western Wood Lily
Wild Lily of the Valley
Smooth Fleabane
Purple Avens
Drummond's Thistle
Mealy Primrose
Balsam Groundsel
Northern Green Bog Orchid
Elephant's- Head
Pink Pyrola
Bunchberry and Fireweed
Death Camus
Wood Betony
Alpine Rock Jasmine
Cusick's Paint-brush
Yellow Columbine
Lance Leaved Stonecrop
Alpine Goldenrod
Monkshood (Mountain)
Moss Campion
Wooly Lousewort
Marsh Valarian
Tall Larkspur
Shooting Star
Field Chickweed
Alpine Pussytoes
Sheep Sorrel
Sweet Grass
Showy Locoweed
Yellow Rattle
Short Beaked Agoseris
Elk Thistle
Yellow Mountain Avens
Common Bladder Campion
Northern Gentian
Richardson's Geranium
Tall Jacob's Ladder
Smooth Blue Beardtongue
Pasture Sagewort
Toad Flax
Tansy
Timothy
Quack Grass
White/Red/Alsike Clover
Stiff Club Moss/Ground Pine and Yarrow
Water Smartweed
Nodding Beggarticks
Rough Hair Grass
Water Arum
Small Fruited Bulrush
Marsh Marigold
Marsh Cinquefoil
Canada Anemone
Calla Lily
Buckbean
Marsh Skullcap
Tule Reed (Great Bulrush)
Giant Burreed
Floating Bog
Common Cattail
Bulbiferous Hemlock
Water Parsnip
Water Hemlock
Rat Root (Sweet Flag)
Cow Parsnip
Western Dock
Blue Columbine
Veiny Meadow Rue
Western Canada Violet
Strawberry
Dewberry,Stinging Nettle
MacKenzie's Hedysarum
Wild Sarsaparilla
Blue Bells
Nodding Onion
Common Greater Burdock
Fringed Aster
Pasture Sage
Rabbitbrush
Goat's Beard
Baby's-Breath
Old Man Sage
Prickly Pear
Curly Cup Gumweed
Tufted White Prairie Aster
Giant Wild Rye Grass
Three Tip Sagebrush
Common Mullein
Crested Wheat Grass
Common Wormwood
Milkweed
Spreading Dogbane
Gromwell or Yellow Puccoon
Wolf Lichen
Pearly Everlasting
Hooded Ladies Tresses
Pink Pyrola
Spotted Knapweed
Bull Thistle
Greater Northern Aster
Skunk Cabbage
Self Heal
False Box
False Hellebore
False Solomon's Seal
Sweet Scented Bedstraw
Eyebright
Wild Catnip and Fairy Bells
Buckbrush
Snowberry
Bracted Honeysuckle
Twining Honeysuckle
High Bush Cranberry
Red Raspberry
Buckbrush
Red Osier Dogwood
Bebb's Willow
Alder
Labrador Tea
Bog Rosemary
Northern Gooseberry
Northern Black Currant
Pin Cherry
Choke Cherry
Saskatoon
Bog Birch
Yellow Witches Broom
White Spruce
Black Spruce
Spruce Resin
Balsam Fir
Balsam Fir Cones
Tamarack
Limber Pine
Western Hemlock
Western Red Cedar
Douglas Maple
Hazelnut
Western Mountain Ash
Engelmann Spruce
Sub Alpine Fir
Dwarf Birch
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Yellow Mountain Heather (Heath)
Hoary Willow
Buffalo Berry
Pink Spirea
White Admiral (butterfly)
Thimble Berry
Red Elderberry
Spiny Wood Fern
Goat's Beard
Bracken Fern
Red Osier Dogwood
White Spruce
Pear-Shaped Puffball
Ponderosa Pine
Black Hawthorn
Oregon Grape
Snowberry
Prickly Rose
White Virgin's Bower
Great Burdock and an identification talk on cones of the Limber Pine
Lodgepole Pine
Jack Pine
Tamarack
Ponderosa Pine
Fir
Balsam Fir
White Spruce
Black Spruce and Engelmann
Aspen
Choke Cherry
Dogbane
Common Juniper
Devil's Club
Baneberry
Paper Birch
Spider
White Poplar/Black Poplar
Aspen Conk
Aspen Stocking Moss
Aspen Burl
Fire Killed Lodgepole Pine
Ants in Lodgepole Pine
Woodland Agaric
Belted Conk
Fairy Stool
Aspen Rough Stem
Field Mushroom
Fluted White Elfin Saddle
Brown Cup
Grasshopper
Smoky Polypore
Aspen Rough Stem
Sketch Pad Fungus
Orange Jelly
Delicious Lactarius
Low Bush Cranberry
Crowberry
Prickly Wild Rose
Mountain Cranberry/Small Bog Cranberry
Hemp Nettle
Red Elderberry/Stinging Elderberry
Wolf Willow

If you have been counting, that's 240 species...

Frankie