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  From: erin jordahl IA 
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  Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:48 PM
  Subject: fwd: Author tries to give sense of Lewis and Clark

  Author tries to give sense of Lewis and Clark
  Jarett C. Bies
  Argus Leader

  Natural history part of book's focus

  While traveling the course of the trail paved by American explorers
  Meriweather Lewis and William Clark, author and outdoors enthusiast
  Elizabeth Grossman tried to focus on the parts of the trail that still
  resemble the sites seen by those two men and their traveling companions.

  "To find things like this, you have to get off the trail a bit," Grossman
  says, "But with the book, I wanted to highlight those undeveloped areas,
  the ones that give a true sense of Lewis and Clark's experience."

  Grossman visits Sioux Falls tomorrow for a multi-media presentation about
  her book,

  "The parts of the book I liked most were portions where she incorporates
  the actual verbiage of Lewis and Clark," says Tracie Weber, conservation
  organizer in Sioux Falls for The Sierra Club. "There's more of a thought
  process in this book, more than just an A to Z trail guide book."

  Conservation efforts are an important part of the work, Grossman says. "If
  we achieve the goal to get people out of their cars, they will want to
  learn more, hopefully," she says. "If they develop curiosity, then in time,
  they will develop concern."

  With a focus on natural history, Grossman catalogues wildlife still present
  in many of the lands Lewis and Clark explored.

  "There are places along the trail, refuge areas where there are clouds of
  snow geese and thousands of pelicans," she says.

  While vacationing explorers can use the book within the state, it also can
  help those planning more distant travels.

  "Most of the area east of the North Dakota border is now farmland,"
  Grossman says. "Farther afield, the trail falls across some areas which are
  amazing in their beauty and remain nearly as they were."

  Reach Jarett C. Bies at 977-3925 or [log in to unmask]


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