How about mushrooms? Mushrooms are an excellent substitute for meat and some of the larger caps are excellent over the open fire. I love to hunt wild mushrooms (I love to eat them more) and I suspect that the BW/Q produces some excellent mushrooms. So many of the best edible mushrooms are mycorrhizal with the Pine species that the BW/Q must be a veritable feast of delectable fungi.  I can hardly wait! Now will the local constabulary allow you to pick (in California they won't)? After all, its only the fruit so if you can pick berries you should be able to pick mushrooms! When does the wild rice ripen? And there must be tons of berries. I like the fiddleheads also but you need to be careful. In Japan where fiddleheads are a delicacy there are increased incidences of cancers of the gastric tract which are ascribed to fiddle heads.  There should be little reason to go hungry in the wild. Foraging is one of my favorite past times. If you ever get a chance you should read some books a friend of mine wrote the "Handbook of Edible Weeds" and the "Handbook of Medicinal Herbs" both published by CRC and written Dr. James A Duke. Dr. Duke has written a number of other books and works for the USDA as an "Economic Botanist" as well as being a bona fide character growing edible weeds in his own weed patch or as he likes to put it, in his "herbal vineyard."

Regards,
Chuck