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Channeled Scablands Spring Waterfowl Surveys, Study Report Published in 2025
The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington (CSEWA) contain one of the Pacific Flyway’s most undervalued and understudied wetland complexes. This landscape was created thousands of years ago by repeated catastrophic floods from Glacial Lake Missoula, leaving behind an intricate network of tens of thousands of basins. Today, these wetlands provide vital staging and foraging habitats…
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Restoring Satus Wildlife Area
Tucked away on the banks of the Yakima River is a series of old oxbows and side channels where Cascadian snowmelt spreads out and slows down during spring’s floods. From a distance, this spot is only marked by the canopies of giant cottonwoods poking above the rows of corn and hops for which this watershed…
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Terry Mansfield Voices the Values of Birds and Open Spaces
Terry has been a champion of birds and their habitats for over 40 years. He is a current rancher and Board Member for Partners for Conservation, but before that, he spent 33 years as a wildlife biologist and wildlife administrator in Idaho and California. He has also been involved in the Migratory Bird Habitat Joint…
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Working Wet Meadows: A Low-Tech Waterfowl Stopover in the Channeled Scablands
Article and photos by Sarah and Trevor Siperek, Meadow Creek Ranch LLC Editor’s Note: Water 4 supports partnership-based conservation tailored to the unique opportunities and needs within landscapes, including conservation easements, agricultural flood irrigation infrastructure enhancements, fish and big game habitat improvement, and water management planning timed to habitat needs. This article features a project…
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Partners Step Up to Conserve the Channeled Scablands
By Terry Mansfield, IWJV State Conservation Partnership Coordinator, Washington It’s a breezy, late-March morning in eastern Washington and the sky is alive with thousands of waterfowl migrating north to their summer breeding grounds in Canada and Alaska. The many types of wetlands in this region are covered with Northern pintail, Mallards, Wigeon, Gadwall, Cinnamon teal,…
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Channeled Scablands and Columbia Basin (WA)
In recent years, the Washington State Conservation Partnership has placed emphasis on using the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) and Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) under the Farm Bill to conserve and restore key wetland habitats in the Channeled Scablands and Columbia Basin. Three standard grants involving 17 partners have been approved to protect and restore over 3,000 acres…
