May 2007 LEWIS & CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION--OREGON CHAPTER

Newsletter Date Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

May 2007 President’s Corner

• President’s Corner: Larry McClure Thanks to several vol- off June 16 under Ted Kaye’s leader- unteers who are step- ship and Keith Hay’s inspiration. • The Oregon Lewis & ping up to help with Here’s an opportunity to do some Clark Inventory Project post-Bicentennial pro- meaningful field work with long-term • Visit the website jects for our Chapter! impact. New board member Lyn www.or-lcthf.org A major one is the in- Trainer and Thelma Haggenmiller are • Vista House expands ventory of significant sites which kicks (Continued on page 3) hours

• Next Issue: The Ghosts of Celilo The Oregon Lewis & Clark Inventory Project — June 16

We can help save the ing a comprehensive nology Classroom. There Inside this issue: memory of Lewis & data sheet and provid- we will assign each asset to Clark in Oregon! ing images, text, and a volunteer, review the observations about site inventory form with defi- Jenkins Leaves Fort 2 Clatsop Our chapter has volun- conditions. Oregon has nitions and examples, and teered to help with a na- over 100 such assets. loan GPS units. Dan Canoe Paddle: 2 tional effort to inventory Wiley, the trail’s Inte- July 29 Lewis & Clark assets. grated Resources Steward- The Foundation is col- ship chief, may join us. 2007 Chapter Events- 2 lecting information on Save These Dates We hope to complete the L&C sites, centers, col- inventory field work by lections, artwork, trails, Board Business 3 the end of the summer— and other related loca- what a great way to organ- tions. Groups in every Rock Fort image by Mark Johnson ize outings along the trail Blue Lake Park: 3 trail state have mobilized July 4 this year! Please come and to identify, survey, and Our Oregon effort will volunteer for this exciting document these assets, kick off with a planning From the Member- 3 project. Contact Ted recording key informa- meeting at Lewis & ship Secretary Kaye for more details tion about each. Clark College, 6/16/07, ([email protected]; Celilo Falls: 4 Through on-site visits, 1:00 to 4:00 PM, in the 503-223-4660). 50th Anniversary volunteers are complet- Watzek Library’s Tech- Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Page 2

ENDANGERED SITES Chip Jenkins Leaves Fort Clatsop (Intact) The LCTHF Stewardship Chip Jenkins, superinten- added neighboring memoration's signature Committee has asked dent of Lewis & Clark land, constructed new event (although some each chapter to identify “endangered” L&C sites National Historical trails and a visitor center, chapter members have by early May, ahead of Park since 2002, has ac- and helped develop regretted that “Fort Clat- our Inventory. Contact cepted the top job at the Fort to Sea Trail and sop III” was not rebuilt Keith Hay about sites North Cascades National the Netul Landing site. differently, reflecting threatened by develop- Park in Washington. scholarship of the past ment, neglect, vandalism, Chip lead the construc- 50 years that show that hazardous waste, etc. A member of our chap- tion of a new fort when the original fort may have ([email protected]) ter, Chip had a central the original Fort Clatsop had three walls of huts, role in the bicentennial replica burned to the not two). JULY 4: commemoration. During ground shortly before the BLUE LAKE PARK his tenure, Fort Clatsop Lewis & Clark com- Bon voyage, Chip! During Independence Day festivities at Blue Canoe Paddle — July 29 Skamokawa to Cathlamet Lake Park, chapter On Sunday, July 29, Corps of Discovery pad- with wine and cheese af- volunteers will work 2007, chapter member dled their dugouts on this terward. two-hour shifts at the route going downstream.) Nichaqwali monu- Margaret Miller will lead a Southwest Washington The plan is to meet in the ment. This is our Canoe Club trip on a morning at the Longview chance to explain the paddle from Skamokawa YMCA and shuttle. Plan artwork and the L&C to Cathlamet, upriver for a full day. connection to the site. with the incoming tide— Bill White image Contact Larry McClure For more information six miles through two to join the team! The club may have loaner and times, contact Mark sloughs and a mile on the Johnson at 503-614-1821 Columbia itself. canoes and kayaks, and will relax at Margaret’s or Margaret Miller at Oregon Chapter mem- house on Eureka Bluff 360-423-4760. bers are invited. (The above the ship channel 2007 Chapter Events — Save These Dates! May 12 Wildflower talk July 14 Trail Hike & Pic- December 9 Annual and tour in the Gorge nic at Oregon coast, with Holiday Dinner at Lewis OREGON CHAPTER- NAME BADGES air gun demonstration & Clark College: June 16 Inventory plan- Archaeology Theme Send $10 and your ning meeting: Lewis & July 29 Canoe paddle: name (as you want it Clark College, 1—4 7 miles from Skamakowa Visit our website for to appear) to Dick to Cathlamet more details, and contact Hohnbaum, 6916 July 4 Monument inter- Wheatland Lane N., Larry McClure with ideas pretation at Blue Lake Nov 9-11 Ocian in View Keizer, OR 97303 or offers to help! Park: noon to dusk events in Pacific County May 2007 Page 3

Board Business www.or-lcthf.org The board has established To fill Ken’s unexpired Officers: There is far more Larry McClure, President ’07 ex officio positions for rep- term through 2007, the Doug Erickson, Vice President ’08 L&C information resentatives of significant board has named Lyn Ted Kaye, Secretary ’07 available on our Lewis & Clark-related Trainer, a development Dick Hohnbaum, Treasurer ’08 institutions in Oregon. officer with more than 20 Directors: website! Mike Carrick ’08, Gentry Cuts- The first to fill such a po- years’ experience at the forth ’09, Don Eppenbach ’07, Please check it for the sition is current director Doernbecher Children’s Keith Hay ’07, Mark Johnson ’08, Hospital Foundation and Glen Kirkpatrick ’09 , Ellie latest updates on Ken Karsmizki, curator McClure ’08, Lyn Trainer’07, at the Columbia Gorge an active Chapter Roger Wendlick ’09 Chapter activities. Discovery Center. member. Ex Officio: Ken Karsmizki We’ll be sending fewer Lewis & Clark Wildflowers in the Gorge — May 12 postcards, so watch Join us for a Mother's Lewis & Clark. Pre- Saturday, May 12 at the website for Day Weekend slide senter: Joan Hockaday, Troutdale Historical Soci- updates! show on the wildflowers Foundation mem- ety “Old Barn” at 726 E. of the Columbia Gorge ber/author from Bain- Historic Columbia River first documented by bridge Island. 10:30 a.m. Highway.

President’s Corner … continued

(Continued from page 1) Thelma’s is thelma.hag “Shannon” of the Corps [email protected]. On of Discovery accompanied Vista House at Crown interested in a spectrum the education front, the by his Newfoundland dog Point State Scenic of trips and travel oppor- Oregon National Guard “Sage”. Dick Hohnbaum Corridor is now open tunities that will appeal under Major Alisha is also making school pres- 9 AM to 6 PM daily. to new and long-time Hamel is still offering the entations and classroom Open on weekends members alike. They’d popular Discovery Box displays in the Salem- and holidays for the like to know what you're presentations at no charge. Keizer area. Let's keep the first time this past win- interested in. Lyn’s email And member R. J. Brown spirit movin’ in 2007! ter, the historic Co- is melendym reports many school re- lumbia River Gorge [email protected] and quests for his visits as Larry McClure landmark has a mu- seum and an interpre- From the Membership Secretary — Final Notice tive display of historic and geologic points of If your membership in six chapter events each esting projects with interest. Several Lewis our Chapter has lapsed, year and publicize many opportunities to add to & Clark sites can be this will be your last news- others. Our excellent the Corps’ Oregon legacy. seen from its spectacu- letter. Please “re-enlist”! website www.or-lcthf.org Please renew your mem- lar location—and gives information on Roger Wendlick will Membership offers many past, current, and future bership: $10 individual, exciting Lewis & Clark- $16 family. be there to show mem- meetings. And we are bers during the May related experiences each pursuing some very inter- year. We organize four to Glen Kirkpatrick 12 driving tour. Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

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Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Oregon Chapter 6916 Wheatland Lane N. Keizer, Oregon 97303

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Don’t Forget the Inventory Project Kickoff June 16 at Lewis & Clark College!

Celilo Falls — 50th Anniversary Commemoration

Many events recently tourist attraction. The The Oregon Historical commemorated the in- elders requested dona- Society and other organi- undation of Celilo Falls tions of any such im- zations have donated in March 1957. Present- ages so that they may prints, but you never ers included long-time identify the people in know what is in some- residents of Celilo Vil- the pictures (while their one’s basement collec- lage (“Wyam”). memories persist). tion!

Tribal leaders and the BPA ad- One aspect of their pres- If chapter members ministrator at Celilo commemo- Please contact Kim Leslie rations in March entations was how many have similar old photo- of Columbia Riverkeeper “undiscovered” photos graphs, the tribal mem- ([email protected], 541-387- of the falls and of the bers would appreciate 3030) with people of the area are copies of them for dis- photographic now coming to light, as play in the new Celilo donations. Celilo Falls was a major Longhouse. Mark Johnson