foraging

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With the decline of logging and cannabis, they see tourism driven by ultramarathons, mushroom foraging and other outdoor activities as a financial savior.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

We are told more than a dozen times, in nearly identical language, that the transitions from foraging to farming, and from farming to civilization, were “not inevitable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

It also recorded bumblebee visits to investigate the impacts of heatwaves on foraging behaviour.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

They monitored the behavior of bats at foraging routes around the bridges and compared it with routes without a crossing.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

When they went foraging in the woods, Powhatans often harassed them, and coexistence between the two groups was uneasy.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz