List of National Natural Landmarks in Washington
From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Washington. There are 18 in total.
Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Ownership | Description | |
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1 | Boulder Park and McNeil Canyon Haystack Rocks | 1986 | Douglas | mixed- federal, state | The most illustrative examples of glacial erratics in the United States. | ||
2 | Davis Canyon | 1986 | Okanogan | mixed- state, private | One of the largest and least disturbed examples of antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue shrub steppe remaining in the Columbia Plateau. | ||
3 | Drumheller Channels | 1986 | Adams, Grant | mixed- federal, state, private | Illustrates the dramatic modification of the Columbia Plateau volcanic terrain by late Pleistocene catastrophic glacial outburst floods. Includes Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. | ||
4 | Ginkgo Petrified Forest | 1965 | Kittitas | state | Thousands of logs petrified in lava flows. Part of Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park. | ||
5 | Grand Coulee | 1965 | Grant | mixed- federal, state, private | An illustration of a series of geological events. | ||
6 | Grande Ronde Feeder Dikes | 1980 | Asotin | private | The best example of basalt dikes, the congealed feeder sources of the Columbia River basalt plateau. | ||
7 | Grande Ronde Goosenecks | 1980 | Asotin | federal | A 1,500-foot (460 m) deep canyon that follows a tortuous path along meanders. | ||
8 | The Great Gravel Bar of Moses Coulee | 1986 | Douglas | mixed- state, private | Largest and best example of a pendent river bar formed by catastrophic glacial outburst floods that swept across the Columbia Plateau. | ||
9 | Kahlotus Ridgetop | 2011 | Franklin | state | The best remaining example of the Central Palouse Prairie grassland subtheme. | ||
10 | Mima Mounds | 1966 | Thurston | state | A prairie containing unusual soil pimples of black silt-gravel. | ||
11 | Nisqually Delta | 1971 | Pierce, Thurston | mixed- federal, state, tribal, private | An unusually fine example of an estuarine ecosystem. INcludes Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. | ||
12 | Point of Arches | 1980 | Clallam | federal | An outstanding exhibit of sea action in sculpturing a rocky shoreline. A unit of Olympic National Park. | ||
13 | Rose Creek Preserve | 1984 | Whitman | private | The best remaining example of the aspen phase of the hawthorne-cow parsnip habitat type in the Columbia Plateau. Managed by The Nature Conservancy. | ||
14 | Sims Corner Eskers and Kames | 1986 | Douglas | mixed- federal, state, private | The best examples in the Columbia Plateau of landforms resulting from stagnation and rapid retreat of the ice sheet during the last glaciation. | ||
15 | Steptoe and Kamiak Buttes | 1965 | Whitman | mixed- state, county, private | Isolated mountain peaks of older rock surrounded by basalt, rising above the surrounding lava plateau. | ||
16 | Umtanum Ridge Water Gap | 1980 | Kittitas | mixed- federal, state, private | Illustrates the geological processes of tectonic folding and antecedent stream cutting. | ||
17 | Wallula Gap | 1980 | Benton, Walla Walla | mixed- state, federal, county, municipal | The largest and most spectacular of several large water gaps through basalt anticlines in the Columbia River basin. | ||
18 | Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field | 1980 | Douglas | mixed- federal, private | The best examples of drumlins and the most illustrative segment of the only Pleistocene terminal moraine in the Columbia Plateau |
References
- "Washington". National Natural Landmarks Program. National Park Service (U.S. Department of the Interior). Retrieved November 1, 2012.
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