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General Resources
Salmon River Canyons Flora and Fauna List, Suggested Topics and Bibliography -- Start Here!
BLM Interpretive Trip on the SRC 2012 - MUST READ FOR ALL GUIDES
Salmon River Canyons Interpretive Trip 1996 - Great overview!
The Lower Salmon Sourcebook: A Guides Guide - MUST REAL FOR ALL GUIDES
Short video from Idaho Public Television: A Palouse Paradise The Palouse, with its verdant camas meadows, was the breadbasket for the Nez Perce. Today it is an important agricultural basin.
Remaking the Palouse: Farming, Capitalism and Environmental Change investigates how the arrival of agriculture reshaped the region. Good source material for the bus ride with guests to the SRC put-in.
Idaho Noxious Weed List- This interactive list helps you track down and identify noxious weeds.
Articles, Stories and Links
Our Cultural Heritage - about SRC
Blog about the Archeological dig at Coopers Ferry on the SRC (Pine Bar area)
Salmon's Second Coming - David James Duncan
White Pines - Great article about the reintroduction of the White Pine, Idaho's State tree.
Mineral Ridge Trail Guide - This is a great document about forest ecology and plant and wildlife identification.
Gary Moulton Interview for PBS about Lewis and Clark Expedition
MAPS - You can Find the BLM Map for the Salmon River Canyons as well as the Riggins Stretch of the Salmon on their website. They are PDF files and they provide them one page at a time.
Interpretive Outlines
Topic: Animal and plant adaptations on the SRC.
Theme: Animal and plants all have a specific place they call “home” and have adaptations that help them live there.
Created By: Tom Scarborough - 2007
Common Interpretive Topics
Links to resource pages with info on certain suggested topics are available below.
Birds - Canyon Wrens
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: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
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: 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: Sturgeon on the Snake and Salmon Rivers
Theme: There are hidden creatures under the surface of the water.
Created By: Jess Evans-Wall – 2007
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
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