At one time, a network of wetlands and marshes surrounded Southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake. These were the hunting and gathering grounds of Native Americans. One of their major subsistence foods was an abundant water lily they called the wocus.

But then came dam-building and the conversion of the fertile wetlands for agriculture. The wocus began to disappear.

Jes Burns of our EarthFix team reports on an effort underway to bring the plant back.