When Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam shattered, a northern arm of the lake drained in a matter of hours through a narrow gap in Montana's Blackfoot River valley. One can only imagine the extraordinary ...

These words and more describe Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest, a newly released anthology from Scablands Books, the small independent press founded by Spokane author Sharma ...

A colorful valley in South Dakota’s badlands. Streams flowing out of the Rockies and wind-blown volcanic ash laid down layer upon layer of sediment, only to be revealed by new streams carving new ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge will receive $1.5 million to purchase nearly 500 additional acres of Eastern Washington’s Channeled Scablands. The federal appropriation will ...

One of the Earth's strangest geological riddles is the evidence for a huge catastrophe that struck eastern Washington State thousands of years ago. It took scientists decades to figure out that a ...

Drive north from the little town of Moses Lake in Eastern Washington, along the often lonely Highway 17, and you’ll start to notice boulders the size of beach balls littering the fields along the road ...

PUBLIC LANDS — I was exploring old, new and developing trails on the BLM’s Fishtrap area on Saturday. The scablands are very wet and waterfowl are in every puddle. I came over one basalt outcropping ...

I’d barely put the car in park at the first stop on our father-son field trip last spring when Alex made a beeline for a series of basalt columns known as “The Feathers.” About a mile away, Interstate ...

Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. Remnant of a lost landscape, this ...

The restoration of degraded rangeland in the Channel Scablands of Eastern Washington was the focus of a 3-year project led by Dr. Kip Panter, USDA animal scientist, and funded by a Sustainable ...