Ice Age Floods Institute (IAFI)
The non-profit Ice Age Floods Institute presents the authoritative story of the
cataclysmic Ice Age Floods across the Pacific Northwest during recent geologic time
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Recent General Interest News
The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has launched the LIDAR Data Viewer interactive map, which offers additional data and new features that make exploring and downloading LIDAR easier than ever before. Visit the viewer: https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/lidarviewer/ Since the Oregon … Read more… I’ve found there is huge public interest and concern about the catastrophic effects of the Eagle Creek Fire on the Columbia River Gorge. Pictures of ridgeline after ridgeline enveloped in bright orange fire, trees bursting into towering flames, and the … Read more… The Ellensburg Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute has a new webpage with presentation videos and field trip guides. The Ellensburg Chapter was created in 2007 by Tom Foster, Karl Lillquist, & Nick Zentner. The chapter has offered free events for … Read more… The Washington Geological Survery (WGS) story map highlighting the ice-age floods that shaped the landscape of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington won the grand prize for scientific/technical story maps at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego last week. Woo-hoo! The Washington … Read more… Castle Lake fills a plunge-pool at the base of a 300-ft tall cataract at the opposite (east) end of the Great Cataract Group from Dry Falls, above the east end of Deep Lake. A set of steel ladders put in … Read more… The next big project for the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail is to develop the official National Park Service (NPS) brochure. The standard park brochure that people receive when they visit most national parks has a map of the … Read more… Bruce Bjornstad is at it again with his awesome Ice Age Floodscapes drone videos, this one from Frenchman Coulee. Watch it below and visit his Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.for many more. Read more... National Geographic has published an outstanding article, “Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades”, about J Harlan Bretz and his outrageous, fantastical theories of a landscape shaped by huge floods. Most Ice Age Floods aficionados are generally aware … Read more… In April, 2017, Lake Lewis members George Last and Bruce Bjornstad worked with Friends of Badger volunteers Jim Langdon (Trail Master) and David Beach to install Markers showing the Lake Lewis high water marks on Badger and Candy Mountains near … Read more… DOGAMI Launches New LIDAR Data Viewer
The Columbia River Gorge Eagle Creek Fire – Ruin or Renewal?
New Ellensburg Chapter Webpage
Ice Age Floods Story Map Wins ESRI Grand Prize!
Castle Lake Basin
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail NPS Brochure
Frenchman Coulee Drone Video
Bretz and His Floods Story – National Geographic
Lake Lewis High Water Markers Installed