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SUMMARY:Northeastern Waterville Plateau Field Trip
DESCRIPTION:2025 Ellensburg Ice Age Flood Institute Field Trip – “Northeastern Waterville Plateau“.\nTopics will center around the Okanogan Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and Ice Age floods in a now farmed and ranched landscape in a part of Central Washington few of us visit.  Trip will begin at Crown Point Vista north of Grand Coulee. \nDetailed schedule and the topics to be covered:\n10:00  Stop 1—Crown Point Vista—Topics: Bedrock geology; Weather & climate; Biomes; Cordilleran Ice Sheet; Ice Age floods.\n10:45  Depart\n11:15  Stop 2—Northeast of Leahy Junction—Topics:  Advancing ice landforms (e.g.\, drumlins and flutes); Soil mounds & patterned ground.\n12:00  Depart\n12:30  Stop 3—Trefry Canyon headwaters—Topics: Glacial meltwater features (e.g.\, tunnel valleys and eskers); Farming & ranching patterns.\n1:15  Depart\n1:30     Stop 4—East of Osborne Corner—Topics: Stagnant ice landforms (e.g.\, recessional moraines and haystack rocks).\n2:15     Depart\n2:45     Stop 5—Strahl Canyon—Topics: Glacial meltwater; Glacial Lake Columbia sediments & terraces; Landslides.\n3:30     Depart\n3:45     Stop 6—Columbia River Overlook—Topics: Changing paths of the Columbia River; Crossing the Columbia River; River transport & rapids.\n4:30     Depart for home \nLogistics:\nThis trip is free and open to the public.\n You will need a Discover Pass for Stop 1.\n After Stop 1\, we will drive on a mix of paved and good quality gravel roads.  A standard sedan should do fine on the gravel roads.\n Carpool if you will make the loop back to Crown Point; otherwise\, there should be lots of parking available at each of the stops.\n We will take short hikes at Stops 2\, 3 and 4.  By short\, I mean 0.5 mi or less at each stop.\nThe hiking terrain is fairly gentle but we will be traipsing through sagebrush and bunch grass.\n There are no restroom or picnic facilities along our field trip route.  Therefore\, you will need to use the great outdoors if you need to go.  Plan on eating lunch/snacks on the road or at the stops.  There won’t be a formal lunch stop\n Dogs and kids are fine to bring as long as they are well-behaved.\n Dress for the weather.  June weather here can be sunny and hot to windy & cool.\n I will post a pdf of the field guide by 9 June on my CWU website at https://www.cwu.edu/academics/geography/_documents/karl-lillquist.php.  Scroll\ndown the page to “Field Guides”.  You will find it under “Margins of the Eastern Cascades”.  Feel free to download and bring it on the field trip in digital format or print it out.\n The Ellensburg Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will also provide ~40 hard copies of the field guide for the trip.  There is no cost for the field guides.  However\, if you are not a member of the Ellensburg Chapter\, please consider making a donation to the chapter to help cover the costs of the field guides (each cost ~$12/each). \nQuestions?\nEmail me at lillquis@cwu.edu or leave a phone message at 509 963-1184.  Emails are best as I only check that phone a couple of times each week.\nI hope you can join us on Saturday June 14th.\nKarl Lillquist
URL:https://iafi.org/event/northeastern-waterville-plateau-field-trip/
LOCATION:Leahy Junction\, Coulee City\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Field Trip
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ellensburg Chapter":MAILTO:Ellensburg@IAFI.org
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SUMMARY:Interesting Features and Recent Discoveries of the Middle and Lower Cheney-Palouse Tract
DESCRIPTION:Lloyd Stoess\n“An Overview of the Middle and Lower Cheney-Palouse Tract of the Channel Scablands – Interesting Features and Recent Discoveries”. \nThis lecture will include a speculative look at when and how many floods came through present day Lacrosse. \nSaturday June 28 at 1:00 pm at The Gathering Place in downtown Lacrosse\, WA as is part of the Lacrosse Farmers Festival.\nPresented by Lloyd Stoess\, Palouse Falls Chapter President.
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LOCATION:The Gathering Place\, LaCrosse\, WA\, 99143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Palouse Falls
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ORGANIZER;CN="Palouse Falls Chapter":MAILTO:palousefalls@iafi.org
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