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Hear how Kennewick’s mammoth is linked to the Ice Age floods

A mammoth’s left humorous bone excavated the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site was on display earlier this year at The Reach museum in Richland.
A mammoth’s left humorous bone excavated the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site was on display earlier this year at The Reach museum in Richland. Tri-City Herald

Learn about the evidence that links the mammoth bones being excavated near Kennewick to one of the Northwest’s megafloods at the end of the last ice age.

Gary Kleinknecht, education director for the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, will give the free talk. He also will discuss efforts to share the project with school-age children.

He will speak at a meeting of the Lake Lewis Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute at 7 p.m. Jan. 9. A business meeting is planned at 6:45 p.m.

The event will be at the Reach museum, 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland.

This story was originally published December 29, 2017 at 4:14 PM with the headline "Hear how Kennewick’s mammoth is linked to the Ice Age floods."

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