The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, which monitors wildfires throughout the United States and maintains historical data on fire size and frequency, is at www.nifc.gov/.
President Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative is at www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthy.forests/toc.html.
A report by the Forest Service asserting that litigation has hampered fire-prevention efforts is at www.house.gov/resources/press/2002/2002_0717forestreport.htm.
The Wilderness Society response to that report is at www.wilderness.org/standbylands/roadless/library.htm#wildfires.
The General Accounting Office's critiques of federal firefighting efforts — including its contradiction of the Forest Service assertion regarding litigation delays — are at www.gao.gov/new.items/d011022t.pdf and www.gao.gov/new/items/d011114r.pdf.
The Western Fire Ecology Center, which seeks to reform federal fire management policies, is at www.fire-ecology.org/.
Pompey's Pillar National Monument is at www.mt.blm.gov/pillarmon/index.html.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is at www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm.
The official site of the Blackfeet Nation is at www.blackfeetnation.com/
The National Park Service Web site devoted to the Natchez Trace Parkway is atwww.nps.gov/natr/index.htm.
To compare William Clark's 1814 map of the West with the previous best map of North America, Aaron Arrowsmith's 1802 version, go to the Library of Congress map collection at lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:1:./temp/~ammem_MUgm::
More information about those buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is at www.findagrave.com.
For those wishing to learn more about the fur trade in the Rockies and the Northern Plains in the years after Lewis and Clark, a good place to start is the home page of American Mountain Men: www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html.
For those wishing to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, there are several useful guidebooks, each of which provides a different level of detail. The best three are "National Geographic's Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail" by Thomas Schmidt, "Traveling the Lewis & Clark Trail" by Julie Fanselow, and "Along the Trail With Lewis and Clark" by Barbara Fifer and Vicky Soderberg.
General background information about the bicentennial and other events associated with the expedition is available online from several sources.
