- Wakefield Lake had a drain near the southeast corner of the lake. When I was a kid, this drain was open and it was possible to walk down the train for a long time. In one exploration, I had cut my foot from glass (I was carrying a glass jar and accidentally dropped it). I cut my toe badly, so my friend John Shingler ripped his shirt off so I could wrap my good. I needed stitches, and even today there is a part of my toe I cannot feel. Some years later I returned with my brother and friend but the drain was gated.
- Dishman Hills Natural Resources Conservation Area (dnr.wa.gov)
Impacted by flooding from Glacial Lake Missoula in Montana, the resulting landscape of scoured out potholes, ponds, ridges, and gullies support grassland ledges speckled with ponderosa pine and habitat for one of the last remaining populations of water howellia, a threatened plant in Washington State.
