I learned today that Congress passed the bill to recognize the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, and the President has signed it, as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Package back in May. This trail links dozens of important geologic localities (some of them already National Natural Landmarks) in a virtual park, linked by signage, road guides, and local businesses and organizations. It's a unique model for public parks, and now it will be allowed to set an example for geoparks elsewhere in the United States and the world.
Background:
The Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
Ice age floods
Geological travel
Geoparks and geoheritage
Comments
Wow. Have you considered leading a tour? I’d take a week or two off and follow you around something like this, Andrew. I’m going to point to this elsewhere. It ought to interest anyone who’s following climate science too.
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I haven’t been paying enough attention to your blog. Just came across this:
http://www.thingsmagazine.net/text/t17/pebbles.htm
and thought it belongs with something of yours, perhaps
this topic, which deserves more attention from people. I mean, there can’t be just 7 of us in the world who ….
http://geology.about.com/od/rockcollecting/ig/petrocks/
I’m a writer from Washington State who wrote a biography of J Harlen Bretz. Bretz’s Flood tells the story of the geologist who–in the 1920s–came up with a theory that the channeled scablands region of Washington state had been carved by a cataclysmic flood. He was nearly laughed of the profession until his theory was proved valid some 40 years later.
For tours of the region, look at the Ice Age Floods Website: http://www.iafi.org Different chapters of that organizations lead tours of scabland locations regularly. I’ve done a few myself.
John Soennichsen