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Red willow (alder)

As food
Annie Benoit of Aklavik says that scraping off the dark outer covering of the bark is an option before eating or boiling it. Medicine from red willow is considered as valuable as spruce gum tea. The bark can be collected year round from any size of red willow.
 
As fuel
Effie Francis (COPE) preferred alder wood for drying fish:
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