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Thursday's postcard, and a field guide to the spectacular Drumheller Channels

Thursday's postcard, and a field guide to the spectacular Drumheller Channels

August 31, 2023

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Jagged palisade at the Drumheller Channels north of Othello

A Bretzland jewel near Othello

Splayed on regional maps, the channeled scablands of eastern Washington resemble an enormous jellyfish, with present-day Spokane at its head and the tentacles of the flood-scoured pathways generally drifting to the southwest.

“Like roads to Rome,” the famous scabland…

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