Columbia River

I cannot Say Pacific Ocian as I have not Seen one pacific day Since my arrival in its vicinity

its waters breake with emenc waves on the Sands and rockey Coasts, tempestous and horiable.
-William Clark-

Photo date: December 18, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Large rocks on the Columbia River shore on a stormy day

Photo by Jo Ann Townsend.

Near Astoria

sent out the men to hunt and examin the country, they soon returned all except Drewyer and informed me that the wood was so thick it was almost impenetrable
-Meriwether Lewis-

Large trees and thick brush

American Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

these suirrels are about the size of the red squirrel of the lakes and eastern Atlantic States, their bellies are of a redish yellow, or tanners ooze colour the tale flat and as long as the body eyes black and moderately large back and sides of a greyish brown
-Meriwether Lewis-

This is a red squirrel, not the subspecies Richardson's Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus richardsoni) that Lewis described

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Low bush with green, sharp leaves and large white blooms

Photo ©2002 Franco Folini. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.

Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)

the brier with a brown bark and three leaves which put forth at the extremety of the twigs like the leaves of the blackbury brier, tho is a kind of shrub and rises sometimes to the hight of 10 fe[et]
-Meriwether Lewis-

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A single ripe orange Salmonberry berry

Photo released to the public domain by N C (Nyanna).

Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)

the broad leave shrub which grows something like the quill wood but has no joints, the leaf broad and deeply indented
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Low bush with green, sharp leaves and large white blooms

Photo ©2008 Walter Sigmund. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.

Ninebark Bark
(Physocarpus capitatus)

the bark p[e]als hangs on the stem and is of a yelowish brown colour.
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Thick bush stem with bark falling off in strips

Photo ©2008 Walter Sigmund. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.

Oregon Crabapple (Malus fusca)

there is a wild crab apple which the natives eat; this growth differs but little in appearance from that of the wild crab of the Atlantic States. but the fruit consists of little oval burries which grow in clusters at the extremities of the twigs like the black haws.
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Oregon crabapple: small, dark bulbs that look like seeds

Photo by Steve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii)

the tree which bears a red burry in clusters of a round form and size of a red haw. the leaf like that of the small magnolia, and brark smoth and of a brickdust red coulour it appears to be of the evergreen kind.—
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Photo taken at Little Cape Horn on December 19, 2010

Red bark peeling off of a bare, smooth trunk