PDF-(EBOOK)-Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

How can you know a place Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet8212author of Sources of the River Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America8212looks to the relics of a region to connect the present moment to the distant past In the vast Western territory defined by the Columbia River Nisbet tracks the stories and meaning of relics such as a trilobite fossil that points to a tropical prehistoric ecology the nearly extinct California condor once the largest thing in the skies described with amazement by Meriwether Lewis the indelible stain of the smallpox pandemic that overcame the native peoples of the West a rare and socially potent strain of indigenous wild tobacco that reveals the presence of vestigial Indian practices and the remains of one Jaco Finlay a mixedblood trapper and scout who seems to have been everywhere in the region two hundred years ago All of these relics are the visible bones that show how past is present in the Columbia River Country Together the stories these bones tell lays out a wholly original hybrid history that connects nature with human endeavor geography with the passage of time8212all contribute to the biography of a place The arrow of time travels in one direction and this is usually how history is told beginning to end But Jack Nisbet is up to something else journeys across time through a place knitting past to present and back again to assemble a portrait of the land that marked the culmination of Lewis Clarks expedition that saw the sad end of the Indian Wars with the flight of Chief Joseph that has offered up fossil proof of mammoth species long extinct In this western territory the storied past is much in evidence. 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Twenty-six percent reported household income over $100k as compared with 18% of visitors to the state.. Trans-boundary issues in the Pacific Northwest. Geography. hundreds of tributaries . Drains >260,000 mi^2. Flow= 78,500,000 acre-ft/yr. 2 nations. Canada (origin). US (85% area, 75% runoff) . 7 states( WA, OR, MT, Id, UT, WY, NV). Mapping Skills. Links with PSHE. There are very strong links between Geography and PSHE running throughout the following slides. . 1. . Meherit’s. Journey. Identify Eritrea on a map and calculate the distance from . Grade. Journeys 3. rd. Grade Tools. Focus Wall. Student eBooks 1 & 2. Student Magazine. Write In Reader. Reading Tool Kit. Projectables. Teacher Read . Alouds. Cold Reads. Word Study . Word Cards. Southwest . Asia Geography. This country is the farthest west . This is the man-made physical feature we’re studying . This is the most important waterway in relation to the FLOW of oil . This . river borders Israel . 2018 @ 0900 in R0A-36. Agenda. New . Business. Preassessement. . Screenings. Chelan . PUD Rock Island Dam, January 1-March 19, 2018 spill into the Columbia River. USACE . Dalles. Dam, March 22, 2018 spill into the Columbia River. Incident Management Division. Area of Responsibility. . . . . . TYPICAL. CASES. :. Mystery sheens. Sunken. vessels. Grounded vessels. Mystery drums. Facility. discharges and releases. Vessel discharges and releases. A preliminary investigation Prepared by: Jan Meerman P.O.Box 208, Belmopan, Belize meerman@biological-diversity.info October 2004 A study commissioned by: Ya`axché Conservation Trust and Toledo