Lake Lewis
Glacial Lake Missoula
Ellensburg
Columbia River Gorge
Coeur du Deluge
Cheney-Spokane
IAFI’s Cheney-Spokane Chapter serves Eastern Washington and represents the region that includes in Washington State, the counties of Asotin, Ferry, Pend Oreille, Spokane, and Stevens; in Idaho, the counties of Kootenai, Latah and Nez Perce; and surrounding areas not represented by other chapters of the Ice Age Floods Institute. Chapter Mission Statement – With its affiliate, the Ice Age Floods Institute, the Cheney-Spokane Chapter is an alliance of individuals dedicated to promoting the Ice Age Floods story and to serving a growing community of Ice Age Floods enthusiasts by offering educational, cultural, and social activities to foster knowledge of the Ice Age Floods, no matter their background or experience.” Chapter Meetings and Lectures are posted on www.iafi.org, Events Tab, and distributed to the Chapter’s Media email listing via MailChimp. During the pandemic, board meetings are scheduled via Zoom meetings.
Use Social Distancing Time to Explore the Floods with Our Interactive Online Map
If you’ve ever tried to explore the Ice-Age Floods with a guidebook you’ll know how difficult and frustrating it can be to find and learn about the features in the area you’re visiting. Well, there’s now a solution to that problem; an interactive map that’s available wherever you have internet access. The map features over 300 points of interest throughout our 4-state area, with a description and images that slide out when you click on one of the markers. More features are being added all the time, and we’re planning to expand the map with features related to the Lake Bonneville Flood event that rampaged through the area during the time of the Ice-Age Floods. Since this is an internet-based map, it’s also easy to get driving directions to the site from wherever you are starting from. You can also easily build an informative field trip, exploring and learning about a number of other nearby features with just a few clicks of your mouse. We feel this may be the most useful field guide ever developed to explore ice-age Floods and glacial features throughout our 4-state region. AND it’s absolutely FREE! The only shortcomings we see are 1) the map requires internet access, which isn’t always available in far-flung areas of our region, and 2) we may not have every point-of-interest on the map (YET!). If we’re missing something you think is important we encourage you to submit your suggestion. We also appreciate any comments and/or corrections by email to Webmaster@IAFI.org. We sincerely hope you enjoy using this guide to poke around these fascinating ice-age features.