Map: Channeled Scablands WA - PNWRMS - 2018 Sacramento and floating the Salmon River

and floating the Salmon River

recreation information

or identifying wintering species in the desert

One of the defining moments of the 20th century

Map: Channeled Scablands WA - PNWRMS - 2018 Sacramento and floating the Salmon RiverThe Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington may be the states least well known yet most geologically fascinating region. The bizarre and somewhat barren landscape of today was shaped near the end of the last Ice Age (some 13,000 to 15,000 years ago), when an arm of the vast continental glacier that extended into northern Washington formed a natural barrier preventing the Clark Fork River in northern Idaho from emptying into what is now the Columbia