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NEWPORT - A naturalist's look at the travels of the Lewis & Clark expedition is the focus of a presentation on Sunday, Oct. 12, beginning at 2 p.m. at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

Dave Shea will present the slide program in the Hennings Auditorium of the HMSC Visitors Center. The presentation is free and open to the public.

The one-hour program will follow the Lewis & Clark "Voyage of Discovery" from St. Louis to the Pacific and back, discussing the birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish the explorers encountered and first described for science. These include everything from tiny hummingbirds to the immense California condor. Significant sites along the way of interest to historians will also be discussed.

Shea worked for more than 30 years as a backcountry ranger and wildlife biologist in Glacier National Park, and recently retired as a biologist and botanist from the Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon. He has presented programs on the subject at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Billing, Mont., and for the Montana Historical Society.

He teaches wildlife at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay and at the Glacier Institute in Montana. He and his wife, Genevieve, have covered most of the Lewis & Clark Trail. They now live in southwestern Oregon.