Wildlife
Salmon species
Oncorhynchus spp.
Habitat
Columbia River and estuary
Conservation
Imperiled
Salmon runs of the Columbia River watershed molded and supported all native cultures seen by the Corps west of Rockies.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Salmon species
Aug
13
1805
Lewis: August 13, 1805
...k some bushes of the
white maple, the shumate of the small species with the winged rib, and a
species of honeysuckle much in it's growth and leaf like the small
hon...
Aug
19
1805
Lewis: August 19, 1805
... but with
little rispect, and compel them to perform every species of drudgery. they
collect the wild fruits and roots, attend to the horses or assist in that
duty ...
Oct
24
1805
Clark: October 24, 1805
...falls are Salmon trout and great numbers
of the heads of a Species of trout Smaller than the Salmon. those fish
they catch out of the Salmon Season, and are at this ...
Nov
6
1805
Clark: November 6, 1805
...e-Arber Vitea or white Cedar, red Loril, alder and
Several Species of under groth, the bottoms have common rushes, nettles,
& grass the Slashey parts have Bull rushe...
Nov
12
1805
Clark: November 12, 1805
...is creek & killed 2 Salmon
trout, the men killd. 13 of the Salmon Species, The Pine of fur Specs, or
Spruc Pine grow here to an emense Size & hight maney of them 7 & 8
fee...
Nov
13
1805
Clark: November 13, 1805
...e of those bushesThe
Timber on those hills are of the pine Species large and tall maney of them
more than 200 feet high & from 8 to 10 feet through at the Stump thos...
Jan
8
1806
Clark: January 8, 1806
...xty or Seventy feet and from 2 to 3 feet in diamiter. Some
Species of pine on the top of the Point of View rise to the emmence hight
of 210 feet and from 8 to 12 fee...
Jan
10
1806
Lewis: January 10, 1806
...ort Clatsop is covered with a
very heavy growth of several species of pine & furr, also the arbor
vita or white cedar and a small proportion of the black Alder which...
Mar
12
1806
Clark: March 12, 1806
...and river already mentioned we have met
with the following Species. viz. the Whale, Porpus, Skaite, flounder,
Salmon, red-carr, two Specis of Salmon trout, mountain ...
Mar
13
1806
Clark: March 13, 1806
...ivs eate the latter and
esteem it very fine. these Several Species are the Same of those of the
atlantic Coasts. The Common Salmon and red charr are the inhabitents ...
Mar
16
1806
Clark: March 16, 1806
...the waves and
tide, and adheres to the Sand.
There are two Species of the Fuci, or (Seawead) Seawreck which we also
found thrown up by the waves. the 1st Specie at o...
Apr
12
1806
Clark: April 12, 1806
...a variety Such as Cotton, large
leafed ash, Sweet willow a Species of beech, alder, white thorn, cherry of
a Small Speces, Servis berry bushes, Huckleberries bushes,...
Apr
17
1806
Lewis: April 17, 1806
...cut them untill I know the number we can
obtain.there is a species of hiasinth in these plains the bulb of
which the natives eat either boiled baked or dryed in the ...
Apr
27
1806
Clark: April 27, 1806
...at Lodges. at present they Seam to Subsist principally on a Species of
Mullet which weighs from one to 3 pds. and roots of various discriptions
which those plains fu...
May
21
1806
Clark: May 21, 1806
...ure that the men would not bring back some
other poisonous species not well known to the Indians. The decision to
purchase roots was probably prudent.