Glacial Lake Ahtna dominated Alaska’s southcentral region during the Ice Age. Utah’s massive Lake Bonneville triggered the Bonneville Flood. But both Lake Ahtna and Lake Bonneville, stu…
It was twice as high and three times as wide as Niagara Falls, making it the largest confirmed waterfall in the planet’s history.
Hiking in Missoula means endless mountain trails, views of the valley and paths leading to hidden wonders that are just begging to be discovered.
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It was twice as high and three times as wide as Niagara Falls, making it the largest confirmed waterfall in the planet’s history.
Multnomah Falls is a waterfall on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, located east of Troutdale, between Corbett and Dodson, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The waterfall formed...
Glacial Lake Missoula, Lake Bonneville and the Ice Age Floods Tom Foster, Pasco WA USA
Come explore caves created by the Great Missoula flood and fall in love with Central Washington's rugged beauty.
First timer? In this formerly once-a-day blog (and now pretty much a once-every-time-I-get-around-to-it blog), I have my computer select a random latitude and longitude that puts me somewhere in t…
It was twice as high and three times as wide as Niagara Falls, making it the largest confirmed waterfall in the planet’s history.
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Taking inspiration from the rolling landscape of the Palouse region, sculpted by the ancient Missoula floods after the Ice Age, the Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) Arena, with its 4,000-seat capacity, serves as a striking gateway to the University of Idaho campus.
Today is Thanksgiving and so we must perform a holiday ritual that hasn’t changed for as far back as I can remember, even though the players are different. We madly clean the house, prepare food, drive to Super Walmart because (oh dear!) we’re missing X, continue preparing food, get out and clean the china and silverware, check the turkey in the oven, clean and set the table, check the turkey in the oven, and pray ... that we (especially the turkey) will be ready by the time the guests arrive. Hopefully there will be some time to be thankful, not just that the turkey is done but also for the things that make our lives enjoyable and satisfying. Most important of course are food, shelter, health, family and friends, but there are many other things to appreciate as well, for example poets. I’m very thankful that there are poets writing poetry that can set my mind to wandering. Ted Kooser is among my favorites, in part because he's so adept at pointing out beauty and fascination in everyday life, everyday people and everyday worlds, both natural and man-made. But I’m not going to share a poem. Kooser also is a great essayist though maybe not as well known for it. His prose is as engaging and often as concise as his poetry; I suspect the words are just as carefully chosen. Here he describes something of autumn in Nebraska (could just as well be here in Wyoming): “What is it the wind has lost that it keeps looking under every leaf this way? All day I’ve watched her angrily pacing, muttering under her breath. She is going to be late, I suppose, for some important engagement. She is saying, I think, that she set it down only a moment ago, whatever it was, and now it has vanished, along with a necklace of geese and the icy lingerie of rain.” Ted Kooser was 13th Poet Laureate of the United States, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and hosts the weekly American Life in Poetry. This excerpt is from Local Wonders - Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (2002; University of Nebraska Press). Autumn in Dugout Gulch, northeast Wyoming.
Come explore caves created by the Great Missoula flood and fall in love with Central Washington's rugged beauty.
This mightiest of rivers was born from the collapse of the glacial dam that had...
As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly--not just once but repeatedly--and reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured through eastern Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean. This is also the story of geologists grappling with scientific controversy--\"of how personalities, pride, and prejudice sometimes superseded scientific evidence.\"
Chromasphere, a collaboration between Clayton Binkley and Taiji Miyasaka, is inspired by the natural and geological forms in Spokane and… Read More
It may not be frozen this winter, but it is a glorious sight to see like this.
Use a smartphone or GPS device to navigate to the provided coordinates. Visitors to EarthCaches can see how our planet has been shaped by geological processes, how we manage its resources, and how scientists gather evidence to learn about the Earth.
Parks and trails staff and local historians in Tualatin, West Linn and Wilsonville will happily tell you about how a series of cataclysmic floods more than 12,000 years ago shaped the local landscape.
Taking inspiration from the rolling landscape of the Palouse region, sculpted by the ancient Missoula floods after the Ice Age, the Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) Arena, with its 4,000-seat capacity, serves as a striking gateway to the University of Idaho campus.
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The hike to the top of Steamboat Rock is one of the most rewarding hikes in eastern Washington. The trail to the top is slightly difficult but not too strenuous and before you know it you will be looking at one of the most incredible views this side of Washington state! So where or what
