Established December 2011
Our Mission
Telling the Lewis and Clark Story and preserving the entire Trail for all people in cooperation with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
Our Slogan
“Preservation through Education”
About the Trust
From our inception, the Lewis and Clark Trust has operated without a paid staff or reimbursement of Trustee expenses. Except for the Directors and Officers Insurance and the Federal 990 Tax Report, every investment contribution is used for programs that benefit all people by preserving the Lewis and Clark story and Trail.
We receive no operational funds from the National Park Service – Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. If the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail requests our management of a program funded with tax dollars, we would do so but without charging an administrative fee. We are a partner.
Like Lewis and Clark, we expect efficient and effective results from ourselves, contractors, and several partners. A program that does not yield results is truncated. Programs that show a high value return on the investment are expanded. We make every effort to operate as an effective non-profit business. Like a for-profit business, Trustees are selected based on skills, not popular election.
Board of Trustees
Trustees
- Ryan Abrahamsen
- Peyton C (Bud) Clark
- Hasan Davis
- Walter Duke, Jr.
- Chris Howell
- James L. Mallory
- Hayden McNeil
- Richard Prestholdt
- Adele Roulston
- Karen Seaberg
- Jeff Troupe
- Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs
- Tony Turnbow
Emeritus Trustees and Advisors
- Hugh Ambrose
- David Borlaug
- Bryant Boswell
- Stephen Forest
- Lorna Hainesworth
- Clay Jenkinson
- Thomas Johnson
- Dan Jordan
- Larry Kluesner
- Jack Robinson
- Mark Weekley
- Carrol Van West
In Memoriam
The Trust remembers William Dabney Terrell (1932–2025) of Beaverdam, Virginia, a friend and early supporter of the Trust who lived at the site of Brown’s Ordinary, where William Clark stopped for breakfast in December 1809.