The Willamette Valley at the time of the Ice Age Floods, 18,000 - 15,000 years ago, was backwater for massive floodwaters coming through the Columbia River Gorge multiple times. It was known as temporary Lake Allison for the geologist who first studied it as a lake.
Join us live at the Heritage Center on Thursday, May 16 at 7pm.
David Ellingson, a biologist and paleontologist, teaches paleontology at Woodburn High School in Woodburn Oregon. Here he has a dig going many years for fauna and megafauna fossil bones involving his students. Continuation of the dig in the same location will start in early July this summer.
