Cheney-Spokane Chapter

Gateway to the Channeled Scabland

"The Gateway"

The Spokane area was the Ice Age Floods pathway to the Channeled Scabland Tracts and Coulees of Central Washington.

The flood waters passing through the area from Glacial Lake Missoula undoubtedly carried large volumes of rock and iceberg debris. Much of the rock debris that was deposited along this Floods breakout path formed the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, an underground reservoir of water that is the source of drinking water for the citizens of Spokane.

The greater Spokane area has its fair share of recessional cataracts, waterfalls, including Spokane Falls in downtown Spokane, Floods carved basalt formations, scablands and debris-dammed lakes. The flood waters were saturated with great volumes of rock flour and soil that transformed them into the ultra-dense and highly erosive flows that carved massive Floods features throughout the central Washington basin.

The Pathway area and the Gateway to the Channeled Scabland are varied and fascinating landscapes

Cheney-Spokane Chapter​

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 Lecture schedules are posted on IAFI.org and distributed to the Chapter’s Media email listing via MailChimp. See the Upcoming Events or the General Events Calendar for a listing of all chapter meetings and events. 

In 2020 we started recording our lectures and uploading them to our YouTube channel: Ice Age Floods – Cheney-Spokane. If you can’t make it to a lecture, we generally have the video uploaded to YouTube in the next week. We welcome you to visit our channel and browse the videos there!

The Cheney-Spokane Chapter provides presentations on the Great Missoula Ice Age Floods for organizations, classrooms, senior facilities, etc. We also schedule speakers, writers, geologists and other scientists on various topics related to the Floods. Contact Speaker Bureau Coordinator, Glenn Cruickshank, for speaker information.

Contact: Linda McCollum by e-mail for more information

President
Linda McCollum

Vice-President Glenn Cruickshank

Secretary
Michael McCollum

Interim Treasurer
Don Chadbourne

Past-President
Melanie Bell Gibbs

National Trail and Education Coordinator

Dr. Gary Ford, 208.660.3757

Membership and Publicity Coordinator

Dr. Linda McCollum, 509.235-8086

Scientific Advisors

Dr. Gene Kiver, 360.299.2759
Dr. Linda McCollum
Michael McCollum
Michael Hamilton, 509.209-0775

Program, Field Trips, and Trails CoordinatorsMichael Hamilton
Don Chadbourne
Chris Sheeran
Sarah Doyle, Ex-Officio BLM
Media ManagerChris Sheeran
Publicity CommitteeMelanie Bell Gibbs, 509.954.4242
Speaker Bureau CoordinatorGlenn Cruickshank, 703.283.7342
Transportation Ex-OfficioDick Jensen, 509.939.7836
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Upcoming IAFI Events

November 2024
Nov 09
November 09, 2024
Soap Lake Senior Center, 121 2nd Ave SE
Soap Lake, 98851 United States
Nov 11

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