News; WA Government; Eastern Washington could get its own landscape feature on Capitol Campus Thu., Feb. 16, 2023 An apple tree in front of the state Legislative Building – fenced in to avoid ...

Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. Remnant of a lost landscape, this ...

That same process repeated itself downstream. An ice dam on the Columbia River formed Lake Columbia and its flooding spilled over onto the eastern Washington plateau and created the Channeled ...

Two decades of change have been at work on the landscape of Eastern Washington and upland bird populations — especially pheasants — are the losers. Big farms grow crops literally to the ...

When Bretz and his students began trekking across Eastern Washington in 1922, the Channeled Scablands had been little studied. That lack of study was due in part to the region’s remoteness.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Washington Department of Resources is expanding burn restrictions beginning on Friday as the state’s landscape dries and wildfire risk increases. Permit burning is not ...

“We had a historic fire event yesterday – 58 new wildfire starts and nine large fires on the landscape, compounded by hurricane-level winds,” Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz said.

J.G. Whittier Apartments, a workforce housing project in Seattle uses the geology of eastern Washington as inspiration for the design. The architecture and interior design celebrate geometric ...