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__(Uconnfootball23) is going to create an adventure story about Lewis and Clark’s Expedition that:__
 * Will focus on the adventureouis animals that they found on their adventure and explain information, how the animals were found and used**

__My adventure story will solve the following problem:__ What animals did they find**
 * How they helped them on their expedition.

__My audience will experience my story through the eyes of:__
 * The animals.**

__My adventure story will have the following common characteristics of an adventure story:__

__My adventure story will have the following key historical events:__
 * When and where they found each animal.**

__My adventure story will have the following key historical characters:__ 2.Grizzly Bear,Elk,Cougar 3.Wolverine,Sea Otter,****Canada lynx**
 * Lewis and Clark, animals of each region: 1.(North American Prairie) 2.(Northern Rockies) 3.(Pacific Northwest)1.Bison,Pronghorn,Badger

__My adventure story will have the following key historically important concrete objects:__
 * The Animals**

[|****http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/species/****] http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=438
 * My adventure story will be credible because I will use the following primary sources:**

http://www.dakotazoo.org/lewisandclark.htm http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journals_maps_3.html http://www.blabberize.com/
 * My adventure story will be credible because I will use the following secondary sources:**

__My adventure story will make the audience feel the following emotions:__
 * Good, about knowing the new animals that they never knew about.**

__I will engage my audience by doing the following (this is something I have never done before):__ Blabberize.com where u can talk as an animal.

=Question: In the North American Prairie, what animals were found?=

__**//Answer: The Pronghorn, The Bison, and The Badger//**__


 * __Detail 1: The Pronghorn__-

I am the is the fastest animal in the Western Hemisphere and maybe fastest in the world, I was clocked at a speed of 70mph. I usually weigh around 90-140 and a female weighs around 75-105. I live in** **the grasslands, grassy brushlands,and sometimes you can find me in bunchgrass-sagegrass areas.**

__**Detail 2:**__ **__The Bison__-

I am also called a buffalo. I was most noticeable in the vast herds of the plains. I can be found in the grasslands. I have many hooves that beat to the ground, you can hear my roaring echoing off of the hills, my back carpeting the prairie causes wormth. For plains, tribes and explorers, I am a key to every aspect of life. Members of the Corps worried how they would feed themselves as they pressed west and left me and my familes behind.**


 * __Detail 3: The Badger__-

In Lewis's description of me, which he called the "burrowing dog of the Prairie," Lewis deemed me clumsy and slow. "I have in two instances out run this animal and caught it," he wrote. But despite my short legs and stocky body that handicap it in a footrace, I can dig with lightning speed after a fleeing ground squirrel. Like many other prairie animals, I live in burrows and are losing habitat.**

=Question: In the Northern Rockie Region, what animals were found?=


 * //__Answer: The Grizzly Bear, The Elk, and The Cougar__//

__Detail 1: The Grizzly Bear__-

//Lewis and Clark heard rumors of the me a long time before they first caught a glimpse of my silver-tipped fur//. Native Americans told stories of my strength and my toughness, and the explorers saw for themselves my massive tracks. They had encountered me and my friends and family swimming across rivers, running across the plains, and feeding on drowned bison. I was everywhere it seemed.

__Detail 2:__** **__Elk__-

My herds wandered the grasslands and forests throughout their expedition. They played the most important role during the winter at Fort Clatsop. Tired of salmon, the Corps of Discovery ate me and used the skins for clothing and livestock harnesses. My population was nearly wiped out in North America, along with many other large mammals, during the 1800s.**


 * __Detail 3: The Cougar-__**


 * I can reach seven feet long including my tail, and i am powerful enough to take down an elk, all though I feed mainly on deer. One of the greatest threats to my habit is negative public perception. In Oregon, the Sierra Club is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a planned experiment that involves killing healthy cougars to observe the impact on elk populations (dam). My habit may be making a comeback in the East, where we were thought to have gone extinct. My populations are growing in western states partly as a result of bans on hunting with hounds.**

=Question: In the Pacific Northwest Region, what animals were found?=


 * //__Answer : The Wolverine, The Sea Otter, and The Canada Lynx__//

__Detail 1:__ __The Wolverine-__

I am a member of the weasel family, but I look like a small bear with a light stripe on my hind legs and backish area. I live out in the backcountry and wilderness areas. I usually denn in rock crevices or in hollow logs. All though I used to inhabit territory from Washington to Maine, I vanished from the eastern and midwestern states during the 1800s. Currently, our largest populations are in Montana, where we live in the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, as well as other northern forests. I am threatened by the proposed Rock Creek copper and silver mine and continued heavy logging and roadbuilding.**

//**__Detail 2: The Sea Otter-__**//
 * Clark thought he saw us in the Columbia, but they turned out to be seals. Our bodies are dark brown, our heads and back of our necks are yellowish or grayish. We have fairly short tails but worm, and they have a thick base. Our feet are webbed, and hind feet are flipperlike. When the explorers reached the coast, they found plenty, and Lewis and Clark traded the Native Americans blue beads, a vest, and a knife, among other items, for our lustrous fur. This same lively fur trade would eventually eliminate the our population between Alaska and California. Reintroduction efforts brought us back to the Washington coast, where we live in kelp forests and eat sea urchins//.//**


 * //__Detail 3: Canada Lynx-__//

Clark called me, "the wild cat of the North." I live in deep forests, often staying out of sight. Even the explorers only saw a pelt rather than me itself. My large furry paws help me hunt snowshoe hares even in the deepest snow. Listed as a threatened species in 2000, I have lost large tracts of habitat to logging and snowmobile use.**