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LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

http: //www. enature. com/fieldguides /view_default. asp? all. Species=y&s earch. Text=American%20 Goldfinch the Sage Grouse These birds forage on the ground They mainly eat sagebrush, but also insects and other plants The American Goldfinch is a small bird, growing up to five inches long the easiest way to identify, them they are bright yellow with black and white markings

Animals and plants A small gray, black, and white bird the Loggerhead it uses its hooked beak to kill insects, lizards, mice, and birds, and then impales them on thorns to hold them while it rips them apart. The entire plant forms a low, matted, clump of spiny jointed stems and It lives in Dry open areas.

Animals and plants the Sauger lives in large creeks and rivers and also lakes and reservoirs its gray dull brown, and its sides brassy and orange with dark markings, often with three to four dark saddles extending to the middle of sides, belly Tansy is a flowering herbaceous plant with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers

Native Americans they encountered � 1832 George Catlin painting of a Minitari chief identified in the journals of Lewis and Clarks:

Quotes � The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind. cheif Joseph

Interesting facts along the way � The interesting facts we found was in total they found 178 new plants 122 new species of animals the greatest distance traveled in one day was 50 miles when they were on a river going downstream.