Reading the Washington Landscape

Geologist getting up close with Earth I was investigating a drainage issue I had visited before. The site was a location where water had be...

I had a project in Anacortes yesterday and took a side trip to Cape Sante. Cape Sante is a rocky upland northeast of downtown with a small p...

I was taking a look at some of the North Cascade glaciers including a couple in my graduate field area - the McAllister Glacier and the Bore...

Benge is not much more than a collection of a few homes, a vacant grocery, and vacant gas station. The grain elevators at the rail line are ...

One of my favorite early Washington persons is Marie Dorion. I did a previous couple posts on Marie marie-dorion-one-very-tough-woman   foll...

I am generally lousy at spotting fossils. Probably saw this mastodon tusk without really seeing it on previous visits to this shoreline bluf...

I have been following the effort of designating Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the San Juan Islands designated a National Conserva...