by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 1, 2024 | Eastern Oregon University, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce treaty, salmon, sockeye salmon, Uncategorized
Two things today. First, we had a great presentation on sockeye salmon on Tuesday. Sarah Barnes, the new Nez Perce Fisheries biologist on their sockeye team, gave us the history and biology of Wallowa Lake sockeye. She was backed up by other staff from NP Fisheries...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 29, 2024 | American Indian history, General Allotment Act, Henry Spalding, Jefferson, Jefferson Bible, Jill Lepore, Manifest Destiny, Uncategorized
In the July-August 2024 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, in an article on “Mapping the Mississippi,” Boyce Uphold writes of Thomas Jefferson: “Jefferson had formed a vision for new territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. It would fuel the creation of an ‘empire...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 9, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Deb Haaland, Fishtrap, Josephy Center, Josephy Library, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Uncategorized
I’m privileged, I tell visitors to the Josephy Center, to be at this place in this time, riding a wave of good feelings and sympathies for Native Americans. We see the Yuroks buying and rehabbing land in Northern California, managing for wild flora and fauna and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 16, 2024 | Rotary, Uncategorized, Wallowa County
This blog post is dedicated to my new friends from India: Ritesh and Yojana Jindel; Biswajit and Anjali Pati; Raj Dubey, Siddharth Varvandkar; Anjana Miatra; and Sidhu Kuljit. They are from Rourkela in Odisha State and Raipur, the capital city in Chhattisgarh State in...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2024 | Abe Streep, Brothers Three, caitlin clark, Canyon Dreams, LeBron James, Uncategorized
Caitlin Clark will play her first pro basketball game tonight for the Indiana Fever of the Women’s National Basketball Association. In her four years at the University of Iowa she had already broken records and helped create a storm of interest in the women’s game....
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
About twenty years ago, a group of us started swimming at the foot of Wallowa Lake in June. We swam almost every day, some with wet suits, some bare-skinned. I was always the slowest swimmer in the group, and my distances didn’t match those of my friends. But I was...
