Fall Chinook Salmon Time
It’s possible you missed the first arrival of fall Chinook salmon in the Hanford Reach The occasion occurred in early April and May when millions of tiny fry emerged from a winter spent developing as embryos in nests made of river gravel. Those small salmon spent three months feeding and growing along the shoreline before they […]
A Geological Paradise
Eastern Washington – there are few places in the Pacific Northwest, or within the US for that matter, where such a wide variety of geologic features are concentrated into a small area for all to see and explore. Take the image below of the White Bluffs, within the Hanford Reach National Monument, which illustrates at […]
The Coyote Canyon Mammoth Dig
Periodically a rather motley crew assembles in Coyote Canyon near Kennewick, Washington A few are computer engineers, two are social studies teachers and one is a paleoecologist. One is an Episcopalian priest, one is a geologist and one is a voice actor. One is an Architect, one is a biologist and a few more have […]