Exploring Eastern Washington’s Mammoth Steppe

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Date/Time
Apr/22/2017
All Day


Location: Bus Tour to Palouse Hills and Pine and Hangman Creeks

Guides: Dan Fisher and Jack Nisbet

Program Description: Join University of Michigan paleontologist Dan Fisher and local author Jack Nisbet for this half-day guided bus tour and journey through the flood-carved landscapes near Palouse Hills along Pine and Hangman Creeks. Places of interest that will be viewed include the Donahoe and Coplen homesteads, where fossil mammoth discoveries in the 1870s caused a local sensation and helped to define scientifically the species known today as the Columbian mammoth. Tour participants will hike among the trees, shrubs, and wildflowers that supported this Ice Age fauna, and try to visualize what life was like for the great beasts. Program includes a boxed lunch.