Join Nick as he examines this surreal landscape for evidence of massive Ice Age floods. Outside Othello, Washington, a labyrinth of canyons conjure images of the desert Southwest, but these channels ...

A town nestled between two rivers with formations that mystify geologists to this day. The town of Pateros, Washington, sits at the confluence of the Methow and Columbia rivers in a landscape that has ...

The Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail is part of the omnibus lands bill that moved forward in the U.S. Senate early this week. It's passage is likely, now that the delaying tactics of one senator ...

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