Fall 2010
A Newsletter of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Tracing the courses of the Missouri From the Superintendent and Columbia Rivers, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail stretches Funding Made Available to Conduct Eastern Legacy Study through 11 states. The Trail winds over mountains, along rivers, through plains •What are the methods for protecting and and high deserts, and extends to the wave-lapped Pacific coast. In this diversity interpreting this portion of the trail? of landscapes, visitors to the Trail create their own journeys of discovery. •What is the route or routes of the Eastern Legacy that should be part of the Trail extension? Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail •What would it cost to administer the Eastern 601 Riverfront Drive Legacy ? Omaha, Nebraska 68102
•What are the potential impacts of this action? Phone 402 661-1804 - visitor center The staff at Lewis and Clark National 402 661-1814 - administration Historic Trail is working hard on many Once the study is completed, Congress will determine what, if any, action it will projects, including the evaluation of the E-mail take. Even if resources are found to be wide array of comments received during [email protected] the public comment period for the significant, suitable, and feasible, there may be other alternatives besides NPS Comprehensive Management Plan. Internet management of the route or a formal www.nps.gov/lecl Another important effort currently designation. Ultimately, Congress may underway is the special resource study elect to take no action. The task at Visitor Center for the Eastern Legacy segments of the hand is to work with the public so that at Trail Headquarters expedition (preparation and return the National Park Service can provide phases) proposed to be included in the Congress with the best information and Summer Hours Trail. In 2008, an act was signed into law to recommendations possible. Memorial Day through Labor Day undertake this study, however the funding • Monday - Friday, 8 am to 5 pm was not provided until this year. Now that Now that the special resource study is • Saturday - Sunday, 9 am to 5 pm the study has been funded the planning underway, I encourage you to visit the team is required to complete this study in National Park Service planning site, Winter Hours three years. Unlike the CMP, much of the http://parkplanning.nps.gov/eastern- Labor Day through Memorial Day work for this study will be done by National legacy, to offer your comments. • Monday - Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm • Saturday - Sunday, Closed Park Service staff from our Midwest Once the planning team has gathered Regional Planning office. Promote Your Events preliminary input from the public, and We want to help promote activities along One of the reasons this study is being made a determination if the Eastern the Trail such as celebrations, festivals and conducted in this manner is to insure Legacy segment is suitable and feasible to encampments. that Congress is provided a balanced and administer, alternatives will be developed. unbiased report. First and foremost the In turn, these alternatives will be made available for public comment and adjusted If you would like to be included in our study will determine if the resource is website Schedule of Events, send a detailed as appropriate. The next step is to of national significance. The study will summary one month in advance to: carefully analyze the potential impacts of also seek to determine if the resources [email protected] each alternative. Finally we will select a are suitable and feasible additions to the Subject line: Schedule of Events National Park System as well as to answer preferred alternative that will become part such questions as: of the report to Congress. Throughout Cover Photo this process the public will have From left, Leah Conner, Brett Heusties opportunities to provide suggestions and •Should the Lewis and Clark NHT be extended to and Frank Janzen discussing options and give comments. We sincerely encourage brainstorming during an Elders Greeting include the Eastern Legacy or not? your input. Your ideas will be given Card Event at Crow’s Shadow Institue of thoughtful consideration. Please help us the Arts near Pendleton, Oregon. •What are the advantages or disadvantages of prepare a study that reflects your wishes extending the Lewis and Clark NHT to include the for the Eastern Legacy of the Corps of Go to Page 9 for more photos and Eastern Legacy? Discovery. information.
Visit their website at: •How should the Eastern Legacy be managed? Mark Weekley, Superintendent www.crowsshadow.org for more information and to subscribe to their e-mail newsletter and blog.
2 Partners in Focus Volunteers in Action
Pictured from left to right: Kate Mendell, Luke Thallas (Eagle Scout), Nate Thallas (Eagle Scout), Judi Thallas, and Bob Pawloski during the Vernturing kick-off event in July 2010. Venturing on the Lewis and Clark Trail What is Venturing? It is a youth young ambassadors, hiking, trail cleaning, MOP provides adult leaders to mentor development and leadership program history crews, and many more. The result Venturing young adults on developing of the Boy Scouts of America for men provides exciting and meaningful activities leadership skills and serving on the Lewis and women ages 14 through 20 years that help young adults pursue their special and Clark Trail. MidMO provides the of age. The purpose of Venturing is to interests, grow, develop leadership skills, resources to support this effort and helps provide positive experiences to help and become good citizens. implement similar programs in other young people mature and to prepare them communities along the middle Missouri to become more responsible and caring Earlier this year, representatives from the River area. adults. Venturing is based on a unique Mouth of the Platte Chapter of the Lewis and dynamic relationship between youth, and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation If this sounds like a model that you would adult leaders, and organizations in their (MOP) and the Middle Missouri River like to replicate in your community, communities. Venturing along the Lewis Lewis and Clark Network (MidMO) met contact Bob Pawloski and Judy Thallus and Clark National Historic Trail could with the Boy Scouts of America. The by writing them at MOP, P O Box 3344, help recruit young, fresh, and enthusiastic purpose of the meeting was to lay the Omaha, NE 68102-0344. Those outside individuals who could become the future groundwork for a Venturing program the Council Bluffs-Omaha area may leaders of the Trail. in the Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, contact Nichole McHenry at the Lewis Nebraska metropolitan area. As a result and Clark National Historic Trail, 601 What can we do to get involved? Local of those meetings, the Mouth of the Riverfront Drive, Omaha, NE 68102 or community organizations such as Platte Chapter and the Mid-America [email protected]. You can also professional organizations, visitor centers Council entered into a Memorandum contact your local Boy Scout of America and national parks establish specific of Understanding (MOU). The MOU Council, or visit www.scouting.org/ Venturing crews by matching their people provides for mutual efforts to promote scoutsource/Venturing.aspx and program resources to the interest of activities along the Lewis and Clark This could be the start of something new youth in the community. There can be all Trail that involve the Boy Scouts, and and exciting along the Lewis and Clark types of venturing crews; from kayaking, specifically the Venturing program. National Historic Trail.
The Trail Companion A Newsletter of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 3 by Neal Bedlan The Trailhead Outdoor Recreation Planner
In 1804, William Clark took time and The Mounds Heritage Trail will connect To date the Mounds Heritage Trail has explored the area near Cahokia Mounds many different sites in the bi-state St. been endorsed by 12 other agencies and prior to the start of the Corps of Louis region, including the Gateway organizations. The Mounds Heritage Trail Discovery Expedition. Today a coalition Arch/Jefferson National Expansion is just one of many projects endorsed of organizations would like residents Memorial and Cahokia Mounds, the largest by the Confluence Partnership which and visitors of the St.Louis area to also prehistoric Indian site north of Mexico and combines partnering agencies and take time out of their busy schedules and a World Heritage Site. The corridor will organizations with stakeholders. The explore the Mounds Heritage Trail. help the public have a better understanding implementation and development of the of the numerous historical, natural, Mounds Heritage Trail will occur over Trailnet is leading the way for the group cultural, sacred and recreational resources time and will be dependent on funding of partners to make the Mounds Heritage in the area. The trail will be motorist and sponsors willing to move forward on Trail a reality. Trailnet is a St. Louis based and bicycle-friendly that interweaves the various segments along the route. non-profit organization with a 20-year vibrant history of the American Indian history of promoting active living and is Nations, Lewis and Clark’s journey and the The Mounds Heritage Trail is a perfect the project leader for the Mounds Heritage Great Rivers-the Mississippi and Missouri. example how the public can actively Trail Project as part of the Confluence experience the Lewis and Clark National Partnership. The Mounds Heritage Trail Trailnet is collaborating with the Lewis and Historic trail through recreation. project is focused on creating a corridor to Clark National Historic Trail to develop increase opportunities for enjoyment of the a Mounds Heritage Trail Master Plan and For more information on the Mounds Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail for produce an interpretive trail brochure to Heritage Trail project visit: millions of tourists to the area. highlight the resources of the Lewis and www.confluencegreenway.org. Clark National Historic Trail in the area.
Above and top right: Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site near Collinsville, Illinois. Bottom right: bicyclists enjoy the scenery of the St. Louis, Missouri skyline and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial’s Gateway Arch.
4 by Ryan M. Cooper Trailscapes Geographer/GIS Specialist
This summer the Lewis and Clark National The Lewis and Clark National Historic through field data collection and analysis Historic Trail hosted two guest scientists Trail includes the entire length of the of river sediment samples in conjunction from GeoCorps America, a program of Missouri River from its headwaters at with an examination of historic maps the Geological Society of America in Three Forks, Montana, to its confluence and aerial photography. Their goal is partnership with the National Park Service. with the Mississippi River near St. Louis, to help reconstruct the fluvial history Missouri. The Missouri River has had a of the Missouri River and to determine Nathan Rossman has returned to the dynamic natural history of meandering whether or not changes in the river Trail as a participant in the program and changing course. However it has morphology have had an impact on Trail for the second consecutive year, after been subjected to substantial human cultural and archeological sites. In June, having completed his Master of Science modification, beginning in the early Rossman and Freed conducted fieldwork degree in Geology at the University of 1800s with the removal of snags and and map analysis at Gifford Farm and Missouri-Columbia. He was joined this other debris. During the early to mid Fontenelle Forest, near the location of year by Tim Freed, a recent Bachelor 20th century, the U.S. Army Corps Lewis and Clark’s Camp White Catfish. of Science graduate in Geology from of Engineers carried out extensive the University of Nebraska-Omaha. alteration of the river through dredging, The information resulting from this channelization, bank stabilization, and the fluvial geomorphology project will be The two guest scientists studied construction of flood control reservoirs. essential for helping protect cultural the Missouri River with a focus on and natural resources along the fluvial geomorphology, the study of Rossman and Freed’s work is helping Missouri River portion of the Lewis river landforms and processes. to unravel this complicated history and Clark National Historic Trail.
Tim Freed using soil auger to collect sediment samples. NPS Photo.
Nathan Rossman collecting sediment samples on the Missouri River flood plain. NPS Photo.
The Trail Companion A Newsletter of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 5 Do You Have a Passport Stamp?
“Excuse me, do you have a passport stamp?” You may not work for customs in a foreign country, but chances are if your site is in on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, you have been asked this question. And if you haven’t been, you will be!
The National Park Passport books are a growing trend, and more and more visitors are seeking cancellations for their books. Your site can become a part of this experience by having its own, personalized cancellation stamp. The stamp will say “Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail,” and have your location and the current date on it.
If you’re interested in obtaining a stamp, please contact the Lewis and Clark NHT Lead Ranger at 402-661-1834 or via email at [email protected].
Junior Rangers Share Their Stories by Byrony Forbes, Park Guide
"When my dad and my uncles were little boys my grandpa they receive an official took them deer hunting. They shot a cute little deer and patch, a newsletter, made lunchmeat out of it. They were sad for the deer, but Junior Ranger they really enjoyed their sandwiches." pledge, and a welcome letter. What you just read is a story written by a youth who is now an official Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Junior Visiting all 3,700 Ranger. Becoming a Junior Ranger helps applicants gain miles of the Trail knowledge of the beautiful landscapes and diverse stories is a challenge, of the Lewis and Clark Trail. But more importantly, it gives but going participants the opportunity to share the stories of their online to read past, of their families, and traditions. about the stories of the people and places of the They also get the chance to share about what they would Corps of Discovery gives an opportunity to do as a ranger working in a national park. One young discover an exciting adventure. By going to the website woman said that, as a ranger, she would protect the parks listed below, future online Junior Rangers can complete by “stopping all the flower takers.” the Lewis and Clark NHT program, as well as find links to other programs. As winter sets in and more time is spent indoors, the online Junior Ranger program is a great way for individuals or The website for the Lewis and Clark NHT Junior Ranger school groups to stay connected to the National Park program is: Service. Anyone between the ages of 7-111 (exceptions may be made for some 112 year olds too) can go online, http://www.nps.gov/lecl/forkids/beajuniorranger.htm print out the form, and use the Lewis and Clark NHT website to find the answers to the questions. After mailing Good luck and happy cyber trails to all future Junior in the form, they become a certified Junior Ranger when Rangers!
6 We Need Your Footage
We have just begun the process of creating a this video is short. Time is of the essence. If you 15-17 minute video that will highlight the many have footage to share, we prefer footage that is great and vast resources found on the Lewis and copyright free, but we can also seek permission Clark National Historic Trail. We are in search to use what you have. of good quality video and images of places and people along the Trail. We’d like to feature your If you have footage or high resolution images landscapes, events, volunteers-in-action, youth to share, or if you know of someone who or education programs, recreation, scientists, does, please contact Carol McByrant at you get the idea. Our production schedule for [email protected] or 402-661-1818.
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Partner Support Program
Capitalizing on the expertise of a A competitive process will help to further you, and where you may need technical multidisciplinary work team, including the work of both the Trail and partners expertise or funding to meet your goals. the disciplines of outdoor recreation, through a broad spectrum of support Think broadly, think creatively. It is our geography, environmental protection, such as consulation, facilitation, technical goal to work together to protect resources, natural and cultural resources, volunteer assistance, funding, training, liaisonship communicate the stories, and enhance management, education and interpretation, and network develpment. the visitor experience; leaving a legacy for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail future generations. proudly announces the development of A call will be announced early in 2011 the Partner Support Program (PSP). This that will allow partners to apply for The PSP email address is: new program is designed to offer technical both technical assistance and funding, [email protected]. assistance and funding , when available, in if available. We encourage you to begin The formal application process will happen a fair and equitable basis to partners along thinking about potential projects in which in early 2011. Watch for more details to the Trail. the Trail can work collaboratively with come.
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Visioning and Partnering for the Future Comprehensive Management Plan Update The Lewis and Clark National Historic for the next steps, which will include We will continue to look to you, the public Trail would like to offer our sincere thanks developing alternatives. and partners, to aid us in creating a plan to all of you who made the 13 public that will help guide us in how we preserve, scoping meetings a success. We visited and Early this fiscal year, we received news interpret, and use the Trail’s resources spoke to the public in all 11 Trail states. that the budget for this planning process while working within the framework of law Your insight will be essential in the next has been significantly cut at the national and policy. steps of planning. level. Though shocking at first, we are now looking at new ways to complete the We look forward to your continued Currently, all comments that were plan under the original timelines. We will support and input for the Comprehensive submitted either by mail or through the continue to communicate with the public Management Plan. planning website, http://parkplanning.nps. utilizing long distance technologies that are gov/lecl, are being analyzed and prepared less cost prohibitive.
The Trail Companion A Newsletter of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 7 Vision Becomes Reality for Three Affiliated Tribes by Karla Sigala, Interpretive Specialist
“We are still here” is the message that the Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT) of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations want to tell the world. This summer, that message came from a group of Native cultural interpretive guides hired and trained to tell the stories of their ancestors.
The TAT Tribal Tourism office applied for, and was granted, money through the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Challenge Cost Share Program to offer interpretive training to summer staff in order to share their history, traditions, and stories to the visitors that come to the reservation each year. Interpretive guides and instructors at the Earth Lodge Village on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town, North Dakota.
The training was truly a collaborative and Clark National Historic Trail. elders, speakers, instructors and staff, effort. Presenters and instructors The effort was led by Karen Paetz to build a group of interpretive guides included Delvin Driver, Fort Berthold Sitting Crow, Tourism Development that could spend the summer learning, Community College; Loren Yellow and Curriculum Specialist for the Three gardening, repairing the earth lodges, Bird, Fort Union Trading Post National Affiliated Tribes. It was her vision that drumming, and beading in order to share Historic Site; and Karla Sigala, Lewis brought everyone together; students and their rich cultural traditions and histories.
Trail Talk A Forum for Interpreters, Educators, and Volunteer Managers on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
Have you ever wanted to connect with issues related to interpretation, Third Tuesday of the Month other interpreters along the Lewis and education and volunteer services. Clark National Historic Trail? Do you It will serve to build a network of December 21 have a volunteer program success story interpreters, informal educators, and January - none to share? Are there any funding sources volunteer managers across the Lewis February 16 out there that you haven’t heard about? and Clark National Historic Trail. March 16 3-4 p.m. CST Would you like to hear how others work Join Jill Hamilton-Anderson, Education with schools and teachers? Do you need Specialist; Karla Sigala, Interpretive Call-in phone number: help with seasonal training? Is your Specialist; and Nichole McHenry, 1-877-784-6085 bookstore in need of new products? Volunteer Program Manager for Passcode monthly conference calls to link 3388423 If you answered yes to any one of these the many dedicated visitor services questions, then this forum is for you. personnel across the Lewis and For Trail Talk Minutes and Agenda: Trail Talk will be dedicated to discussing Clark National Historic Trail. http://www.nps.gov/lecl/ parknews/trail-talk.htm
8 Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Celebrating Diversity Through Art
From left, Jill Hamilton-Anderson, Flynn Espe, Feather Award-winning artist Phillip John Charette signing a Master printmaker Frank Janzen and Artist-in-Residence Heusties, Patrice Hall-Walters, Frank Janzen, and Nichole series of monotype prints created at Crow’s Shadow Vanessa Enos collaborating on a lithograph. McHenry during a familiarization visit to the Institute. Institue of the Arts.
There is a place we visited on a recent trip to the west-end of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail that epitomizes the Trail as an intricate beadwork of the finest and most unique jewels interwoven by hardworking, careful and creative artisans who each have a story of how their place is an important part of this tapestry. By sharing the stories of places like Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts with the collective Trail, we hope that it will inspire and motivate collaboration among Trail professionals. Listen to Crow’s Shadow’s story and perhaps you will discover how this jewel along the Trail can be woven into your story. Jill Hamilton-Anderson Education Specialist
Located in the heart of Indian Housed in a renovated schoolhouse With a growing roster of well- country, situated at the base of Eastern on an historic Catholic mission known native artists—the likes Oregon’s scenic Blue Mountain campus, the institute’s impressive of which include Truman Lowe, foothills, there is a place that, while facilities include a spacious gallery, Kay WalkingStick, Edgar Heap of unknown to many, has drawn together classroom space and, since 2001, Birds, Rick Bartow, Marie Watt some of the most celebrated talents in the state-of-the-art Crow’s Shadow and others—the work of Crow’s Native American, and non-native, art Press printmaking studio—the only Shadow has attracted the attention for the last 18 years. professional printmaking operation on of contemporary art collectors a reservation in the Pacific Northwest internationally. Crow’s Shadow has Founded in 1992 by renowned painter (if not the entire United States). also hosted special projects with such James Lavadour, Crow’s Shadow non-native powerhouses as Dale Institute of the Arts is a nonprofit Crow’s Shadow invites both emerging Chihuly, Tim Rollins, Lynda Benglis organization that provides educational, and established artists to participate and Adnan Charara. social and economic opportunities in two-week residencies, whereby for Native Americans through artistic they work alongside collaborative As part of its ongoing community development. master printmaker Frank Janzen, outreach, Crow’s Shadow also offers a 1996 graduate of the University public workshops throughout the year, Lavadour and others, recognizing the of New Mexico’s Tamarind both in printmaking and traditional deep-rooted traditions of artistry on the Institute. Employing a wide range Native American arts of the Columbia Umatilla Indian Reservation (just east of lithographic and other technical River plateau region. Crow’s Shadow of Pendleton, Oregon), sought to create processes, Janzen works to translate provides a venue for community a place that would help connect other the creative vision of the artist into a members and other interested talented artists to their community and body of original hand-pulled prints, participants to learn the cultural the world beyond. which the institute publishes, markets practices of beading, weaving and and sells on the artists’ behalf. regalia making from regional masters of those arts.
The Trail Companion A Newsletter of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 9 Directory Carol McBryant Dan Wiley Chief - Interpretation, Education, Volunteer Services Chief - Integrated Resources Stewardship Management, partnerships, planning, and visitor services coordination Coordination of resource-based programs and projects
402-661-1818 402-661-1830 [email protected] [email protected] Karla Sigala Neal Bedlan Interpretive Specialist Outdoor Recreation Planner Interpretive media, design, writing, training Recreation opportunities and access, auto tour route and water trails, safety
402-661-1826 402-661-1816 [email protected] [email protected] Jill Hamilton-Anderson Denise Nelson Education Specialist Environmental Protection Specialist Programming; curricula review, alignment and assessment, training Resource protection, NEPA & NHPA compliance; Planning, PEPC
402-661-1824 402-661-1812 [email protected] [email protected] Nichole McHenry Suzanne Gucciardo, Ph.D. Volunteer Program Manager Natural Resources Specialist Volunteer recruitment, management, and training Natural viewsheds; rare, threatened and endangered species
402-661-1810 402-661-1874 [email protected] [email protected] Dick Basch Ryan Cooper American Indian Liaison Geographer/Geographic Information Systems Specialist Tribal Relations, Tribal Resources & Contacts, Cultural Diversity Human land use, mapping, landscape modeling, GIS support
503-861-4404 402-661-1868 [email protected] [email protected] Lee Smith Ronni Whitmer Administrative Officer Secretary Challenge Cost Share, Finance, Contracting & Agreements Staff support, Comprehensive Management Plan information 402-661-1808 402-661-1814 [email protected] [email protected] Welcome Rachel is working as a Cartographic After enrolling in his Human Geography Technician focusing on Geographic course, Rachel found her true calling in Information Systems (GIS) for the life. Her interests in Geography include Integrated Resources Stewardship Cultural Geography, Physical Geography, program area. She is a participant in the and Geographic Information Systems. Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) and is working on her Bachelor Rachel will be completing an of Science degree in Geography at the independent study for the Department
Rachel Lantz University of Nebraska at Omaha. of Geography and Geology this fall while working on mapping the cultural, natural, The staff at Lewis and Clark National Rachel’s interest in Geography was and recreational resources for the Lewis Historic Trail would like to take this sparked by the late Geography Professor and Clark National Historic Trail. opportunity to introduce our newest (and Lewis and Clark enthusiast) Charles employee, Rachel Lantz. Gildersleeve during her sophomore year. Welcome Rachel!
10 Little Known Fact #3 about the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Dr. H. Carl Camp
expedition into the trans-Mississippi area tutorials in botany, biology, medicine “for the purpose of extending the external and celestial navigation from some of commerce of the U.S.” As originally the nation’s leading natural scientists in conceived, the venture was to consist Philadelphia. of 10 to 12 military volunteers and a commanding officer. The initial emphasis On July 4, 1803, a day before Lewis pushed on confidentiality reflected concern for off from Washington, D.C. for Pittsburgh the fact the expedition would be operating where he was to take possession of his There is a durable popular notion that the in foreign-controlled territory (which flagship, a specially designed 55-foot Lewis and Clark Expedition was originally was true at the time). Congress approved keelboat, President Jefferson received fielded for the purpose of exploring the the president’s request and appropriated official confirmation of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase. Well ...... $2,500 to fund the secretive operation. Louisiana Purchase treaty between France and the U.S. That stunning development Yes and No. Actually, it was set in motion After Meriwether Lewis, the president’s changed the whole complexion of the by President Thomas Jefferson months personal secretary, was appointed expedition, effectively shifting it from a before the United States even knew commanding officer of the expedition, he military reconnaissance into a foreign- France was willing to sell the vast western spent the next five or so months making controlled region to that of an exploration wilderness known as Louisiana and before preparations to take his command into the of American-owned territory (at least to the 15 million dollar deal was struck by field. He acquired weapons and related the Continental Divide). America’s negotiators in Paris at the end accoutrements and collected a small of April 1803. mountain of supplies and equipment, Only at that point was the Lewis and Clark including a wide range of Indian gifts and Expedition committed to exploring key In a secret message to Congress on trade goods to smooth his way westward. portions of the Louisiana Purchase and January 18, 1803, Jefferson sought It was during that time, at the behest of beyond. congressional authorization of an President Jefferson, Lewis also received Visitor Center Spotlight The Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska provides unique experiences and an exciting perspective of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Its focus is the more than 300 scientific discoveries including flora (178 plants) and fauna (123 animals) recorded at President Jefferson’s request.
The three story, 12,000 square foot visitor center which opened in 2004 sits on a 76 acre bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
Visitors can experience a replica keelboat, several miles of hiking trails, a full size earth lodge, and numerous explorative exhibits that will challenge your senses. For more information:
MRB-Lewis & Clark Center, 100 Valmont Drive, P.O. Box 785, Nebraska City, NE 68410
Phone: 402-874-9900, Fax: 402-874-9909, Website: www.mrb-lewisandclarkcenter.org, E-mail: [email protected]
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