Stories

In 2022, the Oregon Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation completed an initiative to replace aging waysides along the Columbia River and Pacific Coast.

Climate change threatens the Oregon coast with erosion and flooding, placing historical cultural sites at risk.

Northwest Tribal nations have developed climate change action plans to protect their historical and contemporary relationships with the land and its cultural resources.

Forest that was too thick for expedition members to push through is increasingly threatened by fire, disease, and insects.

Ridgefield NWR helps preserve habitat for waterfowl species that kept Lewis and Clark up all night when they camped near here.

Increased heat and drought bring greater wildfire danger to the banks of the Columbia River.

Warmer winters are allowing pine beetles to kill more of the large trees Lewis and Clark relied upon to make canoes.

Glaciers and deep summer snowpack that hampered the expedition’s journey through the Bitterroot Mountains are largely gone due to climate change.

Indigenous nations who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition succeed are now tackling climate change problems in their homelands.

High temperatures and low water flow threaten salmon in the river where the Lewis and Clark Expedition once caught more than 500 fish.