Reading the Washington Landscape

Observations of Washington State Landscapes, Geology, Geography, Ecology, History and Land Use

Monday, May 15, 2017

Short Note on Irondale and Industrial Legacy

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I previously noted the iron mining claims on Iron Mountain in Skagit County ( hamilton-iron ). The iron ore that was mined from a few of t...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

Extreme Low Tide: Sand Dollar Tracks and Moon Snails

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My job the other day was to assess the geology hazard at a very steep and high shoreline bluff. From the top of the bluff there was not muc...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

A Very low Angle Landslide and a Low Angle Tree

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I had a revisit to a shoreline bluff that I did some work on 15 years ago. At the time, a relatively recent slide had taken place that l...
Friday, May 5, 2017

The Van Zandt Slide Gets Some More Attention

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Dave Petley calls attention to the use of LiDAR (light detecting and raging) and the Van Zandt landslide in Whatcom County  (agu.org/landsl...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Washington State Republican Representatives Positions on the American Health Care Act

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The Affordable Health Care Act was the other Washington's drama on May 4th. As the House bill debate was entirely within the GOP with n...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Hamilton Iron

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Geology is very often a study of deep history. The more recent geology history intersects human history. In doing some research on one bit ...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Orcas, Seals, Dabob Bay and Broad Spit

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I was attempting to track down a reference that included the term Broad Spit and got sidetracked by this article from 2012:  seattletimes.c...
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Dan McShane
Bellingham, Washington State, United States
Dan McShane is an engineering geologist with Stratum Group, a geology and environmental consulting company based in Bellingham, Washington. Dan has been reading Washington State landscapes since driving across the Horse Heaven Hills with his father and brother in 1970. Dan's wife has started painting Washington landscapes. The intent of this blog is to help all Washington travelers better understand the landscapes we see and share field observations.
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