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Explore and Discover How Our Amazing Region was Formed!

Field Trips, Presentations and Other Events are designed to educate, entertain and leave you with a sense of “wow” along with providing fascinating information about the Ice Age Floods. 

Upcoming IAFI Events Calendar

Ice Age Floods Institute Events Inspire, Encourage Exploration, Offer Friendship and Involvement

Activities

Field Trips and Hikes are led by amateur and professional Geologists with new and amazing information to share. They are fun, exciting and informative outdoor adventures for the entire Family to enjoy!

Visit our Activities Event Calendar below for IAFI Field Trips, Hikes and other activities in your area, and go have a great time!

Upcoming Activities
September 2026
Sep 23
September 23, 2026
Whitman County Library,
102 South Main St.
Colfax, WA 99111 United States
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States
October 2026
Oct 10
October 10, 2026
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC),
1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016

Presentations

We offer indoor Presentations, especially popular when heat or cold make outdoor Field Trips too uncertain or uncomfortable. Many Presentations are available via Zoom.

We also offer programs for schools, senior centers and  similar organizations to educate and stimulate minds about the Ice Age Floods.

Upcoming Presentations
September 2026
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States
October 2026
Oct 10
October 10, 2026
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC),
1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016
August 2027

Other events

Other Events such as meetings, festivals, conventions and gatherings, with various public and private organizations, help us tell the story of the Ice Age Floods, Geology, Wildlife and History.

We often have our ‘Store in a Box‘ at these types of events where people can view and purchase IAFI merchandise.

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Relive Past Articles

Asteroid That Decimated the Dinosaurs May Have Struck in Spring

Spring may have been when a roughly seven-mile-wide asteroid struck the Earth, immediately triggering the mass extinction that would wipe out 76 percent of known species. That key piece of timing doesn’t come from dinosaurs, but from the fish that swam in the waters dinosaurs drank from. By studying the

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Mammoth and Horse DNA Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions

New research reveals the ancient animals survived some 8,000 years later than previously thought Frozen soil samples collected around a decade ago are rewriting our understanding of iconic Ice Age animals like the woolly mammoth. The soil samples were pulled from Canada’s permafrost in the early 2010s, but no work

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First People in the Americas – When? How?

When and how did the first people come to the Americas? The conventional story says that the earliest settlers came via Siberia, crossing the now-defunct Bering land bridge on foot and trekking through Canada when an ice-free corridor opened up between massive ice sheets toward the end of the last

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Ice Age Floods’ Eye Candy

Check out Bruce Bjornstad’s Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.  A growing library of surreal aerial video and pics of other-worldly megaflood features.These drone videos and images that can only be achieved and appreiciated from close range in the air give a unique perspective on large landscape features, such as: Gardena Cliffs Rhythmites, Streamlined

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My Hill

As a city kid in the ‘60s my family occasionally visited my grandparents in the farm country of Washington State’s Waterville plateau. My grandfather and two uncles were wheat farmers near the small town of Withrow, the future site of which had been partly hedged in by the Okanagan lobe

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