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In 1986, the U.S. National Park Service recognized the significance and natural beauty of Drumheller Channels by designating them a National Natural Landmark. The geologist who initially recognized and documented the evidence for the Ice-Age floods, J Harlen Bretz , wrote:
There are 18 National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Washington, out of nearly 600 National Natural Landmarks in the United States. ... Drumheller Channels: 1986
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge is a scenic mixture of rugged cliffs, canyons, lakes, and sagebrush grasslands. Formed by fire, ice, floods, and volcanic tempest, carved by periods of extreme violence of natural forces, the refuge lies in the middle of the Drumheller Channeled Scablands of central Washington .
National Natural Landmarks of Washington as designated by the National Park Service ... Drumheller Channels National Natural Landmark; G. Ginkgo Petrified Forest ...
Drumheller Channels National Natural Landmark – U.S. natural landmark in Washington state Dry Falls – Scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, in central Washington scablands Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled scablands
Aug. 16—Developers are planning to build 17 townhomes adjacent to Drumheller Springs Historical Park in northwest Spokane. Named after Dan Drumheller, who used the springs as a clean source of ...
It provides ready access to the Drumheller Channels National Natural Landmark which lies just downstream of the O'Sullivan Dam. This National Natural Landmark is an extensively eroded channeled scablands landscape, characterized by hundreds of isolated, steep-sided hills (buttes) surrounded by a braided network of numerous channels. All but the ...
Drumheller is a town in the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central ... Drumheller Channels National Natural Landmark in the Channeled Scablands of ...