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General Resources
River Dance Lodge/Lochsa Interpretive Overview, Suggested Topics, and Bibliography -- Start Here!
Two videos from Idaho Public Television:
Bud Moore Profile, an eight minute profile of the long time ranger in the Lochsa Country who wrote The Lochsa Story; Moore reflects on the changes in Forest Service policy that led to massive clear cutting and the wilderness movement that resulted.
Conflict in the Clearwater Explores intense social controversy over the management of wolves and timber in the Clearwater National Forest.
The Selway-Bitterroot History Project provides archival photos, documents and oral history about the region, particularly the Wilderness Area. Check out Gifford Pinchot's journal from his 1898 journey down the Selway and then to the Lochsa via Old Man Creek. One of the principal motivating experiences in Pinchot's efforts to create a National Forest system.
Articles, Stories and Resources
All Past Editions of "We Proceeded On" a newsletter from Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
Friends of Bear Paw, Big Hole and Canyon Creek Battlefields - Great website about the Nez Perce war
Common Interpretive Topics
Links to resource pages with info on certain suggested topics are available below.
Fire -- Great Burn, Ecology, Management
Wilderness -- with a focus on Selway-Bitterroot
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act -- include Penny Cliffs Dam
Mineral Ridge Trail Guide - This is a great document about forest ecology and plant and wildlife identification.
White Pines - Great article about the reintroduction of the White Pine, Idaho's State tree.
A Paradise in Mountains - Kooskia Internment Camp
Intro to Wild and Scenic
Wild and Scenic Act
Q & A about Wild and Scenic Act
River Table of Wild and Scenic Rivers
Bibliography
Idaho Noxious Weed List- This interactive list helps you track down and identify noxious weeds.
Interpretive Outlines
Topic: Bats!
Theme: Bats are our Buddies.
Created By: Amanda Mellon 2006
Topic: Birds adaptations.
Theme: Birds we see along these stretches of river are here for specific reasons, reasons that give insight into the subtle and sometimes mysterious workings of the ecosystem we are traveling through.
Created By: Andrea Meadows – 2007
Topic: Western Birds
Theme: Birds need homes too.
Created By: Liam O’Neill - 2006
Topic: Nature’s Buffet (Local Edible Plants)
Theme: We can make a delicious and nutritious feast from the many edible wild plants found in this canyon.
Created By: Andrea West - 2006
Topic: Flight of the Nez Perce
Theme: In 1877, the non-treaty Nez Perce Indians were chased by the army from their homelands.
Created By: Brigitte Derel – 2007
Topic: The Glacial Lake Missoula Floods
Theme: Gradual geologic processes produce events that can dramatically affect our lives.
Created By: Kip Rand - 2007
Topic:Hydrology
Theme: Run Water Run!
Created By: Liam O'Neill – 2006
Created By: Aldo Litig – 2007
Topic: Hydrology 101
Theme: Nature makes rapids in the river!
Created By: Brynn O’Connell – 2007
Topic: History of Gold Mining in Northern Idaho
Theme: Gold mining is hard work!
Created By: Jess Helsley – 2007
Topic: Why the Corps of Discovery was sent out – the state of the USA at the turn of the 19th Century.
Theme: The Corps of Discovery was a very important information-gathering tool to help Thomas Jefferson’s realize his vision of what his fledgling country – the USA would become.
Created By: Tom Scarborough – 2007
Topic: Landslides
Theme: Landslides lead to more fun for you.
Created By: Aldo Litig – 2007
Lewis and Clark – Across the Bitteroots
Topic: Lewis and Clark
Theme: While many of the obstacles encountered in the Bitterroots 200 years ago by the Corps of Discovery have become popular recreational activities, many difficulties and dangers they faced still exist today.
Created By: Kip Rand - 2007
Title: Ni Mii Puu Lifestyle
Theme: The Ni Mii Puu are more like us than you realize!
Created By: Jess Helsley – 2007
Title: Mountain Pine Beetle
Theme: Determining why a tree is unhealthy can be just as elusive as being a real crime scene investigator!
Created By: Jess Helsley – 2007
Topic: Nez Perce Legends
Theme: We are not the only people who have loved this place.
Created By: Brynn O’Connell – 2007 <@>
Topic: The Mighty Ponderosa
Theme: The Ponderosa Pine is a highly adaptable and important species that defines the American West.
Created By: Andrea West – 2006
Salmon's Second Coming - David James Duncan
Topic: Nez Perce Storytelling.
Theme: Storytelling is the center of the surviving history and passing culture in the Nez Perce tribe.
Created By: Anna Rebellino – 2006
Topic: Sacred Places
Theme: Sacred Places of the native people can be experienced and enjoyed by us and the magic of sacred places can be taken and given to any special place.
Created By: Anna Rebellino – 2006
Topic: The sky
Theme: Know the sky before you get wet unknowingly.
Created By: Aldo Litig – 2007
Topic: Medicinal Wild Flowers
Theme: Healing begins among the wild flowers.
Created By: Brigitte Derel – 2007
Without the Nez Perce Lewis & Clark could have died
Topic: Lewis and Clark
Theme: Without the Nez Perce, Lewis & Clark could have died.
Created By Matt Werner - 2006
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