Let Your Feet, and Your Imagination Roam at Rowena Crest and Tom McCall Preserve
Scenic Rowena Crest and the Tom McCall Preserve area provide an incredibly scenic place to let your feet, and your imagination wander as you look out on a major chokepoint […]
CONSUELO LARRABEE – April 14, 1939 – June 21, 2023
Consuelo Larrabee, a beloved member of the Ice Age Floods Institute Board of Directors and the Cheney-Spokane Chapter Board passed away suddenly on June 21, 2023; she was 84 years […]
Tualatin: Crossroads of the Ice Age Floods
Tualatin, Oregon, lies in its own valley near the head of the Willamette Valley. In the time of the Ice Age floods, about 18,000 years ago, the area was a […]
Were Humans Present in the Area During the Ice Age Floods?
During the last ice age, humans ventured into two vast and completely unknown continents: North and South America. For nearly a century, researchers thought they knew how this wild journey […]
Present-Day Glacial Outburst Floods – WaPo Article
Mendenhall Glacier and other glaciers above Juneau, Alaska, while rapidly receding are trapping meltwaters that are more frequently being released as devastating ‘glacial outburst floods’ in mini-examples of the processes […]
Mima/Desert/Biscuit Mounds – An (Possible) Explanation
If you’ve visited the Rowena Crest Viewpoint at Tom McCall Preserve, west of The Dalles in the Columbia River Gorge, you may have noticed the many dome-shaped earthen mounds that cover […]
Bone Pendants Suggest Humans in South America 25,000 Years Ago
The date that humans arrived in South America has been pushed back to at least 25,000 years ago, based on an unlikely source: bones from an extinct giant ground sloth […]
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail – July 2023 Update
Hello from the trail. A lot has been happening over the past couple of months and I’ll start with our new National Park Service interactive web map (https://www.nps.gov/iafl/planyourvisit/maps.htm). Our new […]
Must See Floods Features in Northern Idaho
SOME LOCAL NORTHERN IDAHO ICE AGE FLOODS and GLACIAL FEATURES Purcell Trench – This structurally formed valley became the passageway for the Purcell Ice Lobe that divided into five glacial sub-lobes. The […]
The Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found in the US
Indigenous people have been in the Americas longer than archaeologists once thought. Stone tools unearthed from a rock shelter in Southern Oregon were last used more than 18,000 years ago, […]