Ellensburg Chapter
of the Ice Age Floods Institute

Perhaps you received an IAFI membership form for 2010 in the mail recently. Are you a member of the Ice Age Floods Institute? Do you attend our meetings and field trips, but have never bothered with a membership? Have you been a member in the past, but are considering not renewing your membership for 2010? To summarize the financial status of our chapter and remind you our philosophy regarding membership and expenses:

We are grateful for past IAFI memberships. The Ellensburg Chapter receives 50% of the cost of your membership. The remaining 50% goes to the IAFI as a whole.

To learn of the IAFI's mission, please click on: http://iafi.org/join.html

As for our humble Ellensburg Chapter, we do our best to provide quality content - lectures and field trips. Ellensburg Chapter Treasurer Tuck Forsythe reports that $1523.93 is our current balance. In 2009, we spent a total of $416.07 on travel costs for speakers ($100), handouts for trips ($39.47), and the purchase of a collection of new books/DVDs ($276.60) on the geology of central Washington now on reserve in the Ellensburg Public Library.

The collection includes:

• One DVD: Mysteries of the MegaFlood
• Two DVDs: Cascadia: The Hidden Fire
• Two copies of the book: Bretz's Flood by John Soennichesen
• Two copies of the book: Black Boring Rock by Steve Reidel
• One copy of the book: On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods by Bruce Bjornstad


If you are interested in becoming an IAFI member for 2010, please click on: http://iafi.org/aboutiafi.html

As always, we welcome all who have interest in the Ice Age Floods. Membership is not required! However, if you would like to help support our activities with this local chapter of the IAFI, we would be appreciative.

Chapter meetings are held in Hebeler Hall room 121 (Click for map)

Ellensburg Chapter members (and anyone else that wanted to tag along), launch watercraft to explore the Cooper Lake area. Field trip leaders Karl Lillquist (CWU) and Jack Powell (DNR) described general geology of the eastcentral Cascades, the glacial origins of the lake, impacts of global warming on present glaciers upstream of the lake, and recent modification of the lake by fire, flood, debris flow, and avalanche.