Snowmelt issues about because because its warming up and you can see out at the end of the last ice age, about 1420,000 years ago these huge floods came in the stretching and lay down these flood terraces and lay down these grapples that are great reds for salmon and trout. Theres about 8000 years of archaeology on this area right here with really fine implements from different kinds of work stoned that come from far away and lots of fish bones and mammal bones and just a general good scene that lasted here and kill for traders came in the 1800s and went on for fun. The name of this book is ancient places and what i was to do was write a book about changes. Right here at the creek all these different changes took place, some kind to find stories that really circle around the cultural, social, cosmic, any content i could think of, take scale, little scale. The one that works for this area right here happens around 1900 19001910, i kid comes as a minor to this area. There are flooding in
Pacific northwest. This is the spokane river. Coming in from the east, from lake coeur dalene. Its down because the snow melt is ending and its warming up in the last ice age these huge floods came from this direction and laid down these flood terraces, and laid down these gravels that are great reds for salmon and trout. And theres about 8,000 years of archaeology from this area right here with really fine implements from different kinds of work stone that comes from far away, and lots of fishbones and mammal bones, and just the general good scene that lasted here until fur traders came in the early 1800s and went on. The name of the book is april shen places ancient places i was trying to wright about changes. Im trying to find stories that really circle around the cultural social, cosmic niksch kind of change i can thing of, big scale,s scale. The one that works for this area right here happens around 1900 to 1910, a kid comes who is a miner to this area. They were flooding the area
For the next hour, book tv exclusive, our cities tour visits spoken, washington to learn more about its literary life. We have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seen to our viewers. Cspan. Orgrn more at. John near was probably one of the most significant john muir was one of the most significant environmental thinkers. He helped bring about yosemite as a National Park. It was a state park before. He was instrumental in way survey National Park. He had influence in Olympic National park and not rain air mt. Rainier National Park. I have done previous work on frederick douglass, john quincy adams, jane addams, all of whom had significant travel experience before they embarked in their careers. In the case of john, he found his career through travel. He kept, as many of the others did, journals of his experience. It gave me insight as to what was happening in his head as he traveled a thousand miles. This was a life shaping experience for him. It really gave him focus and directi
Stepping up security, including our own. Pete williams has confirmed the suspects name. Its Esteban Santiago. The shooter was a passenger on a canadian flight and checked the gun in his bag. When he arrived in florida, he retrieved the gun from his bag, loaded the gun and opened fire. We want to show you some video we got from inside the terminal at that baggage claim. You can hear the alarms going off. And then that second situation in terminal one. We saw people running out of the terminal and onto the runway. Others huddled behind cars with Police Officers staged right behind them. Police all over the place there. You see them in some cases with their weapons drawn. Officials told us situation appears to be unfounded. There was no second shooting. Right now the airport is closed. We will keep you updates on any new developments as we learn more from Fort Lauderdale. Our other big story of the afternoon is right outside our door. Its snow thats coming this weekend. Round one came ove
Also in the next hour abuse by home carers. There have been more than 20,000 allegations made against Home Care Workers over the last three years, according to data obtained by the bbc. Prison officers in england and wales are to withdraw from riot duty in a dispute over pay and pensions. And private Rocket Company spacex has announced that two private citizens have paid to be sent around the moon. It is the final day of the inquest into the deaths of the british citizens who died in sousse when a gunman carried out a massacre at the hotel where they were staying. The coroner at the inquests into the deaths of 30 british tourists in tunisia has begun delivering his conclusions. The families had been asking for neglect by the Holiday Company to be considered. The coroner has said that he can and can do that because he said that would have meant a gross cannot do that because it would be a gross failure by the company. But he had very severe criticism for the Tunisian Police. An arms pat