Protecting the Lands Explored by Lewis and Clark 1805 - 1905 - 2005 Saving the Salmon Guarding the Grizzly Protecting Wild Forests Draft review pdf: Download A special issue of Ridgelines The newsletter of the Northern Rockies Chapter of the Sierra Club 2002 • Issue 1 Contacts Links visits since March 10, 2003 CONTACTS John Osborn Sierra Club Sierra Club - Lewis & Clark Campaign lewisandclark@sierraclub.org LINKS Sierra Club - Lewis & Clark Campaign National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennia Monticello Gateway Arch, St. Louis Nez Perce National Historic Park Fort Clatsop Time Magazine: Lewis and Clark

Captain Lewis Captain Clark Louisiana Purchase 1803 LOUISIANA TERRITORY 1805 • ORLEANS TERR. 1805 Monticello, Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson. The Lewis & Clark Trail starts here on the front steps of Monticello. President Thomas Jefferson selected his Virginia neighbor, Meriwether Lewis, as his personal secretary and to lead the expedition. Lewis prepared for the journey under Jefferson's tutelage in North American geography, botany, mineralogy, astronomy, and ethnology. Prior to departing for St. Louis in 1803, Capt. Clark studied under America's leading scientists in Philadelphia. (courtesy of Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., www.monticello.org) White Salmon. (Oncorhynchus kisutch, coho salmon), March 16, 1806. Shown here is a page from the expedition's journals describing and illustrating a salmon. The Corps of Discovery first tasted salmon near Lemhi Pass. (courtesy of the American Philosophical Society www.amphilsoc.org)