Dugout Canoe Application Form

Instructions: You may print this page, answer all items, and then send it in. Or, you may enter your information into the appropriate boxes below and then click on the SUBMIT button. The SUBMIT button will send the entire contents to the Lewis & Clark Experience for review.

Your Company or Group Name:

Contact Person:

Address - Street:

City, State, and Zip:

Phone (day): Phone (evening):

Please state why you should be selected to be involved in the Lewis & Clark Experience Dugout Canoe Program. It is of primary importance that those chosen to participate in this event do so within the educational and historical spirit that prevails throughout the entire event.

After you have been through the Lewis & Clark Experience, how will you be able to share your experience and instill interest in the Lewis & Clark story with others?

Are you ready to challenge your physical abilities much as Lewis & Clark did in not only constructing your own dugout canoe, but then to navigate your canoe down the mighty Clearwater River? Explain.

Lewis & Clark's men had varied skills to make the Corps of Discovery work as a whole. Why would they have chosen your group or organization to join them?

Following completion of the work on the dugout and the schedule of events, we plan to use the canoe in the following manner:

If you were offered the opportunity to build a canoe, where would you like to work?
Lewiston, Idaho Orofino, Idaho

Click on this button to submit your report electronically to the Lewis & Clark Experience.

If you wish, you may print and send this application. Send printed applications to

Lewis & Clark Experience
833 Sixth Street
Clarkston, WA 99403

Please Note: An Application fee must accompany this form for consideration. If you submit your form electronically, you may use a traditional means for forwarding the fee. If you are not selected, your check will be returned to you. This is required to ensure that you are truly interested in this event and that monies are in place to cover costs of log transportation, tickets, meals, and tools.

Fees are as follows: $500 for groups or companies of 50 or less persons. $1000 for groups or companies of greater than 50 persons.

Click on this button to clear the form and start over.

Those whose applications are approved will receive the following:

• 4 Lewis & Clark Experience tickets
• 1 Sixteen to twenty foot long, pine log
• Training personnel, materials and equipment to support the construction of your dugout canoe
  • It is expected that construction of a canoe will take approximately 160 man hours
  • Size of construction is entirely up to you
  • Canoes will carry 3 to 4 adults. (Exact complement of canoe will be determined in consultation with event staff with safety being the overriding consideration)
• 4-hour canoe safety training course (Mandatory)
• Overnight tented camping spot & meals at the Myrtle landing site.
  • Evening of the 26th and morning of the 27th
  • Sleeping bags and personal items are your own responsibility
• Participation in the program at the Lewis & Clark Experience on July 27 in Clarkston, WA
• Help in returning the canoe to your business, society, or association upon completion of the Lewis & Clark Experience events
• Stories and experience of a lifetime!!!

Completed applications must be received by June 24, 1997.

Discover the Experience! Experience the Corps of Discovery!

The Lewis & Clark Experience recognizes the support & contributions of The National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council and its many members.

Proceeds from this event will go to area Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Committees for future educational programs.

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This page was last updated on 6/5/97.
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