Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Bob has previously put out a booklet, Foundation Lewis and ClarJi Routes Between the Bitterroot Valley and the Columbia CHAPTER River, in 1989, and is working on April, 1996 another book he hopes to have published soon. THANK YOU! CAROL MAC GREGOR SPEAKS Thanks to everyone for renewing their AT BROWN BAG LUNCH membership during the past couple of months. The Chapter has had one of it Historian and Chapter member Carol best renewal rates this year, and the MacGregor presented the April officers and board of directors program of the Friends of the Historical appreciate it and thank you. Museum's "Brown Bag Lunch" on April 2. A full house listened to Carol Several members also wrote notes, and explain the highlights of the Lewis and it was good to hear from you. Jack Clark Expedition, and she showed Briggs, who lives at Berry Creek Ranch slides of the six 1811 woodcuts of the near North Fork, wrote "Just a little expedition. Carol also explained how note to tell you why our little ranch is Lewis and Clark were the first white named 'Berry Creek'. Capt. William explorers in the area now known as Clark named this creek Berry Creek on Idaho. Carol also mentioned the his exploratory trip down the Salmon Foundation and Chapter's role in River. His journal and map show the studying Lewis and Clark and invited present day Indian Creek as Berry the audience to pick up membership Creek." forms and information.

BOB HOYLE'S Lewis «fe Clark's Carol is a native of Boise and wrote her Course and Distance Records masters thesis on Patrick Gass. It was recognized as "best manuscript" in Bob Hoyle wrote and sent along a copy 1991 by the Inland Empire Historical of his recent essay entitled, Lewis & Conference. She has also conducted a Clark's Course and Distance Records: course at B.S.U. about Lewis and Did Claric Use Them in Mapping tfie Clark. Route to ttie Pacific Ocean?. This was NATIONAL a result of Bob's interest in Clark's HISTORIC PARK INVITES map-making skills and the technical COMMENTS ON PLAN data included in the journals. Persons interested in this study can contact Bob Enclosed in this newsletter is at 611 19* Ave., Lewiston, ID 83501. information on the alternatives listed for Please enclose $4 for postage and park sites related to Lewis and Clark. copying expenses. If members would like to comment or to receive further mailings, please contact them by May 10, 1996 ill *r'-'-^'"ify9^ 0^ PLANNING STEPS AND SCHEDULE

GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN/ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT Planning Activity Public Participation

"^Ms Gather Data and Establish Goals - Read this newsletter mm - Reajfirm the legislative purposes of the - Attend meetings scheduled near mm park you mj - Identify and study the park's significant - Return comment sheets from features newsletter or meetings - Determine issues and concerns (October 1994 - February 1995) Develop a Park Vision and Develop - Read this newsletter Alternatives - Return comment sheets from this - Develop goals and objectives for the newsletter by May 10, 1996 park's future - Suggest a range of alternatives to achieve goals and solve problems - Evaluate the alternatives, working with Tribes, agencies, and community mem• WE ARE bers HERE (Spring 1995 - Spring 1996) Prepare and Publish a Draft Plan - Attend public meetings to comment - Refine alternatives based on public and - Return comment sheets from agency comment summary plan or meetings - Write a Draft General Management Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement - Distribute summary of plan for public comment (Spring - Fall 1996)

Revise Draft and Publish Final Plan • Agency review .-A final plan will be developed based on • Read newsletter describing final the environmental analysis, public plan response to the Draft Plan, and other relevant information. (Fall - Winter 1996)

Begin Implementation Work with tribes, agencies, Develop required legislative proposals community members and park on - Request funding for major capital im• partnership activities provements and program initiatives - Work with Tribes, agencies, and commu• nity on partnership activities (1996 and beyond)

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We encourage you to write to Please be sure to tell us if your comments pertain to a particular site or us with your thoughts and com• group of sites in the park, or if they relate to the entire park. HOW TO ments about the alternatives presented here. Your comments PARTICIPATE will be considered in the devel• opment of a proposed action. AND This will be presented in a draft general management plan/envi• REMAIN ronmental impact statement, to be published in the fall of 1996. INFORMED Please fold this form in half, enclose additional sheets of comments if neces• sary, tape it shut (no staples, please), and mail it to the preprinted address. Should you have any questions, please call Mr. Frank Walker, Superintendent, Nez Perce National Historical Park, at (208) 843-2261. PLEASE MAIL YOUR COMMENTS BY MAY 10, 1996

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JACKIE POWELL NEZ PERCE GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN • • ' NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DENVER SERVICE CENTER - DSC RPG P O BOX 25287 " , ' , DENVER CO 80225-0287

llnl,llnn,MnM.LLLInl,lnll ,II,I,JI At this site the Nez Perce as• Service owns, manages, and site spaced along a short in• CANOE . sisted the Lewis and Clark maintains this 2.65 acre site. terpretive trail. Visitor facili• Expedition with building 5 It was completely rehabili• ties at Canoe Camp include CAMP canoes in September, 1805. tated in 1993, after extensive a sixteen space parking lot, It is located adjacent to the archeological survey in drinking fountain, two pic• UPPER Clearwater River, approxi• 1989-91. nic tables, a hard-surfaced CLEARWATER/ mately 4 miles west of trail, and four benches along Orofino, Idaho, on US High• There are four wayside ex• the trail. The exhibit of a re• WHITE BIRD UNIT way 12. The National Park hibits at the Canoe Camp production canoe adds a di• mension of scale to the con• struction of five similar ca• noes by the Lewis and Clark expedition. There is an old stone monument with a hole in its side on the back side of the trail which once held a time capsule but now seems to confuse visitors.

(left) Viewing north east across the Clearwater River to Dworshak Dam. (below) US Highway 12. Canoe Camp at left.

CANOE CAMP Issues: The view is dominated by Dworshak Reservoir on the North Fork Clearwater River. Traffic on Highway 12 is heavy and noisy. Businesses with large, colorful signs are located across the highway. Planning No Action Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Elements (Min. Requirements) Interpretation and Work with local groups to tie in with Same as NA. Same as NA. Visitor Use L&C Bicentennial, and to increase local appreciation of site. Install orientation wayside. Land and Resource Remove or refurbish time capsule. Same as no action. Same as no Protection Develop and maintain vegetative action. screening around the site to separate from development.

1)1 Nez Perce vl^' National Historical Park . ,r^r.^ f\l Management Plan Alternatives Newsbook • Apnl 1996 The combined Asa Smith ond, "Long Camp" refers to This site is covered by the ASA SMITH Mission and Lewis & Clark the camp used by Lewis & Memorandum of Under• Long Camp site is a pullout Clark in the spring of 1806 standing with Idaho Depart• MISSION with seven interpretive as they waited for the snow ment of Transportation and signs located on the south to melt at Lolo Pass. These Idaho State Historical Soci• side of US Highway 12, ap• two signs were moved from ety. proximately 1 mile east of their original location across LEWIS AND Kamiah, Idaho. The historic the river from the actual mission site itself as well as sites for highway safety rea• the Long Camp site is ap• sons and to consolidate in• CLARK proximately 2 miles down• formation and interpretive stream, at what is currently signs in the area. The four LONG CAMP a privately owned logging others provide wayfinding UPPER mill. and activity orientation to the Clearwater region. Visi• CLEARWATER/ One of the seven signs, "Asa tors stop here, read the WHITE BIRD UNIT Smith Mission," describes signs, and leave. There are the two years the missionary no resources to see and spent trying to establish a nothing else to do. mission near here. The sec•

Lewis & Clark Long Camp and Asa Smith wayside, US Highway 12 east of Kamiah.

ASA SMITH MISSION/LEWIS & CLARK LONG CAMP ISSUES: Signs are at the wrong location, in a "sign garden." The wording is incorrect. Planning No Action Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Elements (Min. Requirements) Interpretation and Work with IDOT to Work with landowner to Same as 1. Visitor Use correct wording and to conduct research. Move move signs if highway is sign to correct location. relocated. Land and Resource Finish cultural resource Same as no action. Same as no action. Protection documentation.

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The combined Asa Smith ond, "Long Camp" refers to This site is covered by the ASA SMITH Mission and Lewis & Clark the camp used by Lewis & Memorandum of Under• Long Camp site is a pullout Clark in the spring of 1806 standing with Idaho Depart• MISSION with seven interpretive as they waited for the snow ment of Transportation and signs located on the south to melt at Lolo Pass. These Idaho State Historical Soci• side of US Highway 12, ap• two signs were moved from ety. proximately 1 mile east of their original location across LEWIS AND Kamiah, Idaho. The historic the river from the actual mission site itself as well as sites for highway safety rea• the Long Camp site is ap• sons and to consolidate in• CLARK proximately 2 miles down• formation and interpretive stream, at what is currently signs in the area. The four LONG CAMP a privately owned logging others provide wayfinding UPPER mill. and activity orientation to the Clearwater region. Visi• CLEARWATER/ One of the seven signs, "Asa tors stop here, read the WHITE BIRD UNIT Smith Mission," describes signs, and leave. There are the two years the missionary no resources to see and spent trying to establish a nothing else to do. mission near here. The sec•

Lewis & Clarl< Long Camp and Asa Smitli wayside, US Highway 12 east of Kamiah.

ASA SMITH MISSION/LEWIS & CLARK LONG CAMP ISSUES: Signs are at the wrong location, in a "sign garden." The wording is incorrect. Planning No Action Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Elements (Min. Requirements) Interpretation and Work with IDOT to Work with landowner to Same as 1. Visitor Use correct wording and to conduct research. Move move signs if highway is sign to correct location. relocated. Land and Resource Finish cultural resource Same as no action. Same as no action. Protection documentation.

l/f Nez Perce \ National Historical Park 24 A General Management Plan Alternatives Newsbook 'April 1996 Lolo Trail is about 100 miles There is a log USDA-Forest Forest in Montana. There is LOLO TRAIL long, roughly from Weippe Service visitor center at Lolo a cooperative agreement be• to Lolo Pass on the Idaho- Pass with two interpretive tween the National Park Ser• AND LOLO Montana border. US High• signs in the parking lot. In• vice and Clearwater Na• way 12 closely parallels the side, there is an exhibit area tional Forest that covers 27 PASS trail, which is up on the with 9 flat panel exhibits, an important cultural sites ridges. The Trail is a Na• information desk, and book widiin the corridor. UPPER tional Historic Landmark. It sales area. Two of the exhib• CLEARWATER/ also encompasses the Nez its interpret the history of Perce National Historic Trail the Lolo Trail; three discuss WHITE BIRD UNIT and the Lewis and Clark the Nez Perce. National Historic Trail. The entire Lolo corridor contains The Lolo Trail Corridor is significant ethnographic, ar• managed by Nez Perce and cheological, and historic re• Clearwater National Forests sources.. in Idaho and Lolo National

(above) Bear Grass at Lolo Pass (left) Lolo Pass Visitor Information Center, operated by the US Forest Service.

LOLO TRAIL AND LOLO PASS Issues: No cooperative agreement on Montana side. Use of Motorway and Trail has damaged resources. Logging takes place. Need to preserve prehistoric/buffalo trails. Signs sometimes intrusive. Portion from Lolo Pass to Meadow not developed; has integrity. Lolo Pass: Interpretation at visitor center can be expanded to develop public awareness of Nez Perce NHP. Planning No Action Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Elements (Min. Requirements) Interpretation and Assure NPS and USPS interpretation Same as No Same as No Visitor Use are consistent. Lolo Pass: Expand Action Action interpretive information to provide orientation to entire park. Land and Resource Work with USPS to manage and Same as No Same as No Protection preserve resources. Emphasize Action Action viewshed preservation. Support preservation/protec tion alternative in Forest Plans. Develop agreements for Montana side. Nez Perce National Historical Park General Management Plan Alternatives Newsbook • Apnl 1996 Spalding Unit Upper Oregon/ C earwater/ Washington SITE BY White Bird Unit Unit SITE Ant & Yellowjacket Asa Smith Mission/ Dug Bar Lewis and Clark INFORMATION Buffalo Eddy Lostine Campsite Long Camp Coyotes Fishnet Joseph Canyon Camas Prairie Craig Donation Land Viewpoint Canoe Camp Claim Old Chief Joseph Donald MacKenzie's Clearwater Gravesite Battlefield Pacific Fur Company Nez Perce Campsites Trading Post Cottonwood ^, r Nez Perce Cemetery Fort Lapwai Skirmishes Officers Quarters and East Kamiah/Heart of Northern Idaho Indian Agency the Monster Lolo Trail and Pass Montana Hasotino Village Site Unit Lapwai Mission Looking Glass Camp Bear Paw Battlefield Also known as Spalding Musselshell Meadow Home Big Hole National Lenore Pierce Courthouse Battlefield St Joseph's Mission Tolo Lake Camas Meadow Also known as Slickpoo Battle Sites (Idaho) Mission Weippe Prairie Spalding Weis Rockshelter Canyon Creek White Bird Battlefield

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