BY SALLY FREEMAN, VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Lewis and Clark National Historical Park is thrilled to announce that parkvolunteer Bob Zimmerling is the winner of this year’s “George and HelenHartzog Enduring Volunteer Service Award” for the National Park Service’sPacific West Region! Bob has been a Volunteer in Park (VIP) at Fort Clatsopsince the mid-1980s when his family […]
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BY JILL HARDING, CHIEF OF VISITOR SERVICES Park education staff met with approximately 150 Astoria elementary and middleschool students over three days early in July to run mini-camps in person at theSouth Netul Landing park unit. This was in lieu of a virtual camp, and at therequest of schools that have federal funding for summer
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On January 13, 1806, while at Fort Clatsop, Captain Lewis writes, “this evening we exhausted the last of our candles, but fortunately had taken the precaution to bring with us moulds and wick, by means of which and some Elk’s tallow in our possession we do not yet consider ourselves destitute of this necessary article;
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We get a lot of questions at Fort Clatsop. Here are some commonly asked questions and their answers, courtesy of our amazing park rangers! From LCNHP Ranger Alicea Powell: Aside from where are the bathrooms . . . I think the most common question is about why the roof is slanted in. The design is based
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As a park ranger, I have always loved questions. I love using questions to engage visitors to think deeply about a park theme. I enjoy the look that comes over a visitor’s eyes when you have prompted them with a rhetorical question to dig into the story and to test their assumptions. As much as
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