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Tours

1. Tree Walk Tour

   Professor Evan T. Williams Memorial Tree Walk

   Stops

   1. Giant Sequoia

      Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum

      Professor Evan T. Williams Memorial Tree Walk

      In 1990, two Lewis & Clark students conducted a census of campus trees and wrote A Natural History Guide to the Lewis & Clark College Campus. The guide included a tree walk that featured 48 species. In 2002, Evan T. Williams, professor of chemistry and founder and director of the Environmental Studies Program, inspired students to restore the tree walk and enhance its educational and aesthetic value.

      Following the death of Williams in early 2004, the Class of 2004 dedicated their senior gift to the tree walk. The Class of 2005, building on the work of students before them, developed the educational materials to accompany its restoration.

      The Professor Evan T. Williams Memorial Tree Walk consists of 20 species of trees, including native trees that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered on their journey west. A Glenna Goodacre bronze sculpture, Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste, is also located along the walk, as is York: Terra Incognita, a bronze by Alison Saar.

      This tree walk is named in honor of Professor Williams: teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend.

      Dedicated May 7, 2005.

   2. American Beech

      American Beech Fagus grandifolia

   3. Oregon White Oak

      Oregon White Oak Quercus garryana

   4. Loebner Magnolia

      Loebner Magnolia Magnolia x loebneri

      Nearby

      Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste, a bronze sculpture by Glenna Goodacre, is located not far from this specimen.

   5. Bigleaf Maple

      Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum

   6. Deodar Cedar

      Deodar Cedar Cedrus deodara

   7. Japanese Umbrella-Pine

      Japanese Umbrella-Pine Sciadopitys verticillata

   8. Paperbark Maple

      Paperbark Maple Acer griseum

   9. Incense Cedar

      Incense Cedar Calocedrus decurrens ‘Fastigiata’

      Professor Evan T. Williams Memorial Tree

      Each fall, Professor Williams invited the Lewis & Clark community to join him on the Frank Manor House patio to watch the sun rise directly over Mount Hood. This tree, a variety of incense cedar found only on the eastern slopes of Mount Hood, memorializes Evan and his sunrise gatherings.

   10. Ponderosa Pine

       Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa

   11. Pacific Yew

       Pacific Yew Taxus brevifolia

       Evan Thomas Williams, 1936–2004

       Professor Evan T. Williams joined Lewis & Clark in 1992 as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. As an administrator, he conceived Lewis & Clark’s motto: Explorare, Discere, Sociare (to explore, to learn, to work together). As a chemistry professor, he was founding director of the Environmental Studies Program, which was built upon courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities—what he referred to as the “environmental tripod.”

       A popular and revered teacher, Williams led the successful effort to create a chapter of the national honor society Phi Beta Kappa at Lewis & Clark, initiated the annual Environment Across Boundaries Symposium, served as a faculty advisor for various student groups, and inspired the restoration of this tree walk, which is named in his honor.

       Dedicated May 7, 2005.

   12. Western Redcedar

       Western Redcedar Thuja plicata

   13. Chinese Photinia

       Chinese Photinia Photinia serrulata

   14. Katsura Tree

       Katsura Tree Cercidiphyllum japonicum

   15. Japanese Stewartia

       Japanese Stewartia Stewartia pseudocamellia

       Nearby

       York: Terra Incognita, a bronze by sculptor Alison Saar, looks onto the circular green space known as the Glade.

   16. Western Hemlock

       Western Hemlock Tsuga heterophylla

   17. Douglas Fir

       Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii

   18. Rhododendron

       Rhododendron Rhododendron spp.

   19. Pin Oak Quercus Paulustris

       Pin Oak Quercus Paulustris

   20. Japanese Flowering Cherry

       Japanese Flowering Cherry Prunus serrulata