In Their Footsteps: Carol Lucas

It would have been customary for Jefferson to have sent a botanist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. One of the many purposes of the trip was to assess what resources, including plants, were in the lands to the west.

Carol Lucas is an herbalist in Gearhart and considers herself a “plant person.” She became serious about medicinal herbs after having a major turnaround in a serious health crisis, for which conventional medicine had no answers. For more information on In Their Footsteps, read here.