[Horatio Gates]

Thought you might be interested...

[atomicpossum]

Thank you for not putting this in 'Breaking News.'

:-)

[Nova]

I'm presently reading a "National Geographic Adventure Classic" abridged version of their journals by Anthony Brandt. I wish it included a more detailed examination of their equipment, the Indian tribes they interacted with, the terrain, etc., but I still recommend the book. It's much more readable than their actual journals, which are massive, rather incoherent and very repetitive.

Excerpt form October 20, 1804:

Moulton prints a note by Lewis of this date indicating that Pierre Cruzatte, out hunting, had wounded a white bear, or grizzly, but then ran away in fear at the "formidable appearance" of the animal and left his gun and tomahawk behind. He retrieved them later. This was the corp's first encounter with a grizzly.

[Nova]

I'm presently reading a "National Geographic Adventure Classic" abridged version of their journals by Anthony Brandt. I wish it included a more detailed examination of their equipment, the Indian tribes they interacted with, the terrain, etc., but I still recommend the book. It's much more readable than their actual journals, which are massive, rather incoherent and very repetitive.

Excerpt form October 20, 1804:

Moulton prints a note by Lewis of this date indicating that Pierre Cruzatte, out hunting, had wounded a white bear, or grizzly, but then ran away in fear at the "formidable appearance" of the animal and left his gun and tomahawk behind. He retrieved them later. This was the corp's first encounter with a grizzly.

[SunkenCiv]

[related: I think it was posted to FR]

Past climate change questioned
Quirin Schiermeier
Swings in temperature might be more common than thought.
Published online: 30 September 2004; | doi:10.1038/news040927-16
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040927/full/040927-16.html

[SunkenCiv]

a GGG ping -- ancient climate had similar long-term (and natural) fluctuations.

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[SunkenCiv]

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback	Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan

[elli1]

I read Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo not long ago; it's old historical fiction. Probably not for the L & C purists, but its a good read & full of lots of details about the L & C expedition & native American culture.

[ApplegateRanch]

The explorers "traveled through the American Northwest during a climatically favorable period after one of the most severe droughts within the past several centuries, and they concluded their travel two years before the onset of another major drought,"

When does a drought cease to be a drought, and become the normal climate?

And whatever you call the opposite of a drought is the proper term for L&C's "window".

In any case, interesting article about an interesting study.

Knapp has spent years studying tree rings in his native state of Oregon,

BTW the Medford, OR area seems to be be losing its 'wet' trees in favor of 'dry' trees. By the time we sold last year, after 19 years, the alders & willows in our drainage were dying, and no seedlings were replacing them; but pines were invading. Firs were also pretty stressed. We had years of 'drought' followed by a few "normal" years, and then back to drought.

I know; too small an area, and too brief a span to make any valid conclussions; just more "anectdotal evidence".

[Chani]

better late than never bookmark ;)