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Lions Shred Event will end early today at 11:30. Please drop off food for F.I.S.H. by 11:30!
October 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Consider bringing a food donation to support F.I.S.H. tomorrow at the Mill Plain Methodist Church #LIONS
October 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Sooo...malaria epidemics (fever and auge) were one of the most deadly diseases in the PNW in the 1830s -- they hit the region hard in 1830 & 1833, first linked to American ship the Owyhee that had stopped in S. Am on the way to Fort Vancouver www.nwcouncil.org/reports/colu...
Epidemics
www.nwcouncil.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This Fort is ready for some people — Come to the Bicentennial Event this Saturday starting at 10am! www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
August 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Vancouver WA folks: get your berries!
August 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Great presentation by Rick McClure and Cheryl Mack on #huckleberries in the Cascade Range of #Washington State. #Indigenous places . At the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center. #Fort_Vancouver #bicentennial #nationalparks #nps
July 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#NPS booth at the #Archaeology Roadshow in Gateway Park today. Teaching about the archaeology of adornment! #NationalParks
Park ranger standing in uniform behind table talks to a visitor. Exhibit panels are behind her and the table has beads, books and coloring items.
May 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Memorial Day at #NPS Fort Vancouver National Historic Site #nationalparks www.columbian.com/news/2025/ma...
‘These were real people’: Hundreds join Memorial Day service at Fort Vancouver
It is too easy to let Memorial Day, and the solemn ideals and personal sacrifices it commemorates, fade into something routine and thoughtless.
www.columbian.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony. Inspiring speakers, presentation of the colors, cannon salute, release of doves, music, and light refreshments.

Monday, May 26, Ceremony starts at 10:00am
Garrison flag raising at 9:30am
Fort Vancouver NHS Parade Ground #nationalparks #nps #vanwa
Giant flag being raised by rangers in uniform on green grassy area. Large oak tree in left background. A fire truck is in the background. Sky is cloudy.
May 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The historic garden replica at Fort Vancouver is a lesson in how western horticulture met a western prairie. Many new and Indigenous plants were grown between 1825 and 1860 at this critical fur trade fort #national_parks #nps
An artist takes in the scenery in a field of California poppies. The palisaded fort and tall Douglas fir trees in the background. The sky is mostly clear. A post and rail fence runs along the right side of the image. A gardener with wheelbarrow walks toward the camera on a garden path. Flowers are growing throughout. A palisaded fort with buildings are in the background. The sky is mostly clear. A bed of California poppies and other flowering plants in a garden with a palisaded fort behind. Sky is mostly clear.
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Tomorrow!

“Fire, Protected Areas, and Native Ecological Knowledge in the American West"
Doug Deur, SEES Seminar Thursday 5/15
free!
Location: Portland State University Cramer Hall CH 53
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Zoom link: pdx.zoom.us/j/86987598104
We hope to see you there! Portland State University
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Children at the Children’s parade at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Even dark clouds could not dampen the mood! #NPS #Nationalparks
Hundreds of school children in rain gear walk past the historic Chief Factors house. Tents with a brass band in foreground. Historic buildings and palisade in background Hundreds of children in a line walking out of the fort. Dark clouds on the horizon.
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I had the honor of touring about 25 visitors on an #archaeological walking tour of Fort Vancouver and its village. Part of the #bicentennial events at the Fort. Great pics from friends. The camas was still blooming and I talked about the underlying Indigenous landscape. #nationalparks #nps
Archaeologist speaks to visitors at well. Historic reconstructions in the background. Tour of historic fort with archaeologist pointing to the stockade. Girl looks out of postern gate at historic reconstructed fort Camas blooming in field
May 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Paul Kane wrote: “camas and “wappatoo” are found in immense quantities in the plains in the vicinity of Fort Vancouver, . . . the whole surface presenting an uninterrupted sheet of bright ultra marine blue, from the innumerable blossoms of these plants.” It still blooms! #nps #Indigenous #vanwa
Camas blooming in a grassy field Camas blooming in a grassy field with Fort Vancouver palisade and bastion in background a grassy field with Fort Vancouver palisade and bastion in background. Silver Star mountain on the horizon.
May 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Was giving a presentation on some of my recent and ongoing archaeological work at a conference today and unexpectedly came across this promotional poster for my forthcoming book ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’.
May 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Love this map! #history Fort Vancouver National Historic Site www.nps.gov/fova/bicente...
May 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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As someone who's absolutely fascinated by the history of the American West, I have a particular fondness for parks like Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Washington. Such a wonderful place to explore and walk around at.

#nationalparks #publiclands
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site: A Journey Through Time in the Pacific Northwest
The fascinating Fort Vancouver National Historic Site encompasses reconstructed Fort Vancouver, U.S. army barracks and Pearson Air Museum.
www.travel-experience-live.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I met this #murder of crows on the way into Fort Vancouver National Historic Site today. These crows know that Fort Vancouver is the oldest National Historic Site west of the Mississippi and intrinsic to the history of the American west. #nationalparks #nps #history
Black crows on a split rail fence with a palisaded fort behind.
May 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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School kids visit Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Field trips show history in a place creating memorable, and life-changing experiences. #education #nationalparks #nps
School kids march along a path in front of a historic White House. A fort palisade and a tall pole with a bell is in the background. Other historic buildings are to the left and right. School kids march along a path in front of a historic White House. A fort palisade and a tall pole with a bell is in the background. Other historic buildings are to the left and right.
May 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site has worked with scouts BSA from different troops on Eagle Projects. A number of projects put new tags on trees to better manage their health. Another replanted historic trees to maintain a historic alee of trees. www.nps.gov/fova/learn/n...
A young tree with a fort in background. A black metal tag secured with an aluminum nail in a tree trunk
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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nimíipuu (Nez Perce) of the Red Heart Band joined with Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle of Vancouver, WA, Superintendent Tracy Fortmann, Cowlitz elders and others at the Redheart Memorial ceremony #vanwa #NationalParks #nps

www.nps.gov/articles/000...

www.confluenceproject.org/library-post...
Park ranger speaks at outdoor ceremony. Empty honor chairs have blankets in the foreground Mayor speaks at outdoor ceremony next to Nez Perce elder. Empty honor chairs with colorful blankets in foreground.
April 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Beautiful days in the Pacific Northwest. Mt. Hood watches over the Fort Vancouver landscape. #nps #nationalparks www.nps.gov/fova/bicente...
Mountain volcano with historic garden and flowering plants in foreground Fur trade fort palisade and bastion beside trail to left, Flowering garden to right
April 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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On my walk today I saw that the trillium was blooming in the woods near my house. #nature #spring #vanwa
A green 3-leafed plant with violet flower. A green 3-leafed plant with violet flower.
April 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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An ominous cloud on the horizon at Fort Vancouver, but the cherry blossoms don’t mind. #vanwa #nationalparks #nps
A wooden fort framed by flowering cherry trees with a path in the foreground A wooden fort tower (bastion) and orchard with an ominous black cloud on the horizon
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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My former graduate student Amy Clearmann from #Portland_State University spoke about the first Fort Vancouver (1825-29) as part of the #bicentennial commemorations. #history #archaeology #nationalparks
April 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM