Gavin Anderson

Goal: To produce a comprehensive website with maps and interpretive information. The website is continuously refined from public input and provides travelers with an invaluable source of updated information, at no cost.

Members of the Board each take responsibility for sections of the website, checking on them and suggesting additions, changes or corrections.

Education Fund: Larry McClure
President's Message: Mark Johnson
Projects: Roger Wendlick and Glen Kirkpatrick
Pictures: Ted Kaye (and all photographers)
Events: Thelma Haggenmiller and Lyn Trainer
Newsletter: Ted Kaye
Accuracy: Ted Kaye, Glen Kirkpatrick (all Board Members are part of this subgroup)
Press Releases: Mark Johnson and Dick Hohnbaum

Mark Johnson

One year after our Chapter members’ day-long and soggy planting party rejuvenated the Lewis & Clark Garden section of the Oregon Garden, the plants thrive. However, we’re not quite done with the project. We need to finish paying for the plants!

The Oregon Chapter treasury advanced $385 to buy a truckload of special plants—all of them species first described to science by Lewis & Clark and indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. We’d hoped to receive donations—especially from folks who could not join the planting party—to cover the cost. To date, however, we’ve received $240 from generous donors.

We realize we did a better job of spending money than asking for it, so we’d like to make that up now! Would you please consider making a donation toward the Lewis & Clark Garden planting? Your gift is tax-deductible as a charitable contribution. Send your check to LCTHF-OR, 6916 Wheatland Lane N., Keizer, OR 97303. We’re hoping to make up the balance by the end of December.

Your support will help assure that schoolchildren and other visitors to the Oregon Garden appreciate the tremendous contribution that Lewis & Clark made to the botanical history of the Oregon Country.

Thank you.

Larry McClure & Dick Hohnbaum

Goal: To find the ways and means to assist and encourage local schools, libraries and other institutions in educational pursuits and curricula related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Education Fund

The Oregon Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation funds local schools to enable them to participate in Lewis and Clark related activities in the area. 

One of the large project that we have just completed is the "Blue Lake" project. The picture at right is a carving of one of the two plankhouse posts at the Blue Lake Monument site honoring the village of Nicaqwli, where the guide lived who led Captain Clark back down to the Willamette River in April, 1806. Our chapter led the fundraising and the dedication event August  6, 2005, but the installation was not complete at that time. Since then, the project has been completed.

We have been given a grant of $2500 to do curriculum work for schools on this site and to explain its meaning.

Roger Wendlick

Goal: To prepare a landscape design plan for the restoration end enhancement of the gravesite area, including suggestions for a wayside rest area, toilet and interpretive signage on nearby Oregon State Highway 95. To assist in the future construction and refurbishing program for the site and seek transfer to, or permanent maintenance by, a public agency.

All told, our state contains a wealth of objects and places related to the Corps of Discovery, waiting to be encountered by students, residents, and tourists. These include actual L&C campsites, interpretive signs, plaques, museums, trails, gardens, collections, replicas, monuments, public art, and gravesites. In 2007-2011, Chapter members documented over 100 such Lewis & Clark-related “assets” in Oregon.

Collecting data to support the National Park Service in its effort to update the comprehensive master plan for the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail, they joined volunteers conducting similar inventories in all the trail states. Armed with clipboards, forms, GPS devices, and digital cameras, they gathered over 10,000 data items and 2,000 images and documents.

From little-known public art and interpretive panels destroyed by vandals, to the most important and sometimes remote Lewis & Clark sites in our state, assets on and off the Trail yielded to the volunteers’ in-depth documentation efforts.

Our Chapter thanks the tireless researchers who visited all the assets and brought back important information on each one:

Bob Brown
Dave Ellingson
Arnetta Guion
Thelma Haggenmiller & Jerry Herrmann
Mark Johnson
Mary Johnson
Glen Kirkpatrick
Jane Richardson & Lois Roby
Mike VonDerahe
Brad Yazzolino

Eventually, it is hoped that this trail-wide data will be publicly available. For the time being, it is helping to inform decisions about investments along the L&C Trail. Our Chapter has made an important contribution to this work.

Ted Kaye
Oregon Inventory Coordinator

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[ Oregon Inventory List | Inventory Form | Data Dictionary | Data Entry Instructions | Data Entry Form ]

Mark Johnson
The Oregon Chapter encourages youth organizations to learn more about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 2010 we introduced an embroidered patch, similar to those offered by other Chapters along the trail. The patch can be earned by Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, Explorers, and Venturers. See HERE for the requirements to earn this popular patch.