To all appearances, the forest looks healthy -- a green tapestry of ponderosa pine spreading across five square miles of low buttes, ashy scablands, and rocky promontories. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Never mind that the wait at both ends and the flight time is more time consuming than a four-hour drive over the “mountains” and through the “scablands” to bubba land. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-20] Reference
Plant communities present a rich mosaic of grass and shrublands, Garry and California black oak woodlands, juniper scablands, mixed conifer and white fir forests, and wet meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On The Cascade Siskiyou National Monument] Reference
One flood happened when a glacial lake burst its empoundment and created the scablands in Oregon, Another flood happened when the Mediterranean flooded the Black Sea and others have happened at other times. From Wordnik.com. [Man made global warming? No way!] Reference
That's how, on a crisp, clear Saturday morning that October, I found myself driving across Washington State, through the serrated Cascades, through the channeled scablands, wheat fields, and scrub forests, until I descended into Spokane and all that I'd left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
Yet, such a world-girdling flood ought to and would have left enormous, massive evidence of just the sorts of things that floods do — but, except for specific localities where real floods are known to have have occurred at other times, e.g., the so-called “scablands” of eastern Washington state, such evidence is wholly lacking. From Wordnik.com. ["My problem was, how am I going to draw God?"] Reference
Much of the dry landscape and scablands of today are what was left behind. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Yakima, and Umatilla basins, scarring much of the scablands in the process. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
The intense, overland flows carve the miles-long scars of the scablands between Spokane and Pasco, Wash. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Most of the original scablands were altered by homesteaders, who drained wetlands for farming and grazing. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Despite their barren connotation, the scablands host a rich array of plant and animal life, said Mike Rule, the refuge's wildlife biologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Out here in the scablands where life is hard, and only going to get harder, there is an old joke among farmers; How do you make a Microsoft. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Such a vast inundation, far greater than anything ever witnessed in historical time, seemed impossible to geologists in the 1920s, when J Harlen Bretz proposed that the scablands resulted from a catastrophic flood, not eons of gradual erosion. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
"It is conceivable that other valleys in southern British Columbia contributed water to the scablands but the field evidence necessary to test these possibilities has not been fully documented," said earth scientist Jerome-Etienne Lesemann at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
She was shocked to find that her hometown was considered — in the 1920s, at least — Seattle's jazzy sister, that Teddy Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh and Ethel Barrymore had happily come by rail, that Calvin Coolidge and Douglas Fairbanks and Amelia Earhart and, yes, Thomas Wolfe, looked forward to a night at the Davenport as an outpost between the deep forest and the desert scablands. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
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