What is a National Recreation Area?
This file appears in: Carving the Columbia: The Ice Age Floods
National Park Service Interpreter, Brandon Cadwell, talks about National Recreation Areas and why they are important.
This file appears in: Carving the Columbia: The Ice Age Floods
Carving the Columbia: The Ice Age Floods
These gently sloping hills beside the lake show the marks of a tumultuous process at work. This region of the Columbia Basin was carved over eons by the meander of the river, by slow erosion, and by…