Monday's postcard, and how to find and experience the 'Bretz' hills

May 1, 2023

Blooming Camas in a scabland bog near the Spokane/Lincoln County line

Teardrop Hills

A poem of geography, with the signature of a catastrophe

A century ago the geologist J Harlen Bretz—then on the faculty of the University of Chicago—was holed up in Spokane with a contingent of his students. His purpose, with their help, was to map what Bretz, in a late 19…