Indigenous Students Survey Wildlife Along Lewis and Clark Route Two Centuries On
Indigenous students are conducting a new wildlife survey along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, according to The Guardian.
Indigenous students are conducting a new wildlife survey along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, two centuries after the journey, according to a report by Ashley Stimpson in The Guardian. The Guardian reported that the survey follows the expedition's historic route.
The Guardian's summary states that in 1804, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore the newly acquired land west of the Mississippi. According to The Guardian, the president's primary aim was political, as Americans needed to establish presence, power and trade routes in those lands.
The Guardian's headline carried the line "We can't protect what we cannot see," but the summary available for this report does not identify who said it. The summary also does not say what the survey records or why the students undertook it beyond that statement.
The Guardian's account draws a contrast between the expedition's original political purposes and the present-day survey, which the summary presents as work carried out by Indigenous students along the same route. The summary does not report the survey's findings, its methods, the number of participating students, or the communities they represent, so those details cannot be confirmed from this account.
The Guardian's report was written by Ashley Stimpson. Further details of the project may appear in the full Guardian article, which this report does not reproduce.