Dishman Hills

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A granite outcrop in Dishman Hills.

Dishman Hills Natural Resources Conservation Area is a 530 acre (2.14 km²) area protected by a combination of public (Spokane County Parks and Recreation Department and Washington Department of Natural Resources) and non-profit (Dishman Hills Natural Area Association) groups, located in Spokane County, Washington. The Granite outcroppings, forming the bulk of the area, were originally formed 70 million years ago, by volcanic magma pushing up through the Earth's crust and then cooling. The current state of the rock was formed between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago by the Missoula Floods. The hills consist of small ravines, ponds, and large chunks of granite, that support an eco-system consisting mainly of ponderosa pine, as well as about 300 different flowering plants (including Indian Camas), and 73 different species of mushrooms.^[1] The area also supports wildlife, such as coyotes, marmots, white-tailed deer, pheasants, and dozens of species of butterflies.

The Dishman Hills rise immediately south of the Dishman section of The City of Spokane Valley. Continuing south, out of the park, the elevation continues to rise to the peak of Krell Hill.

2008 Fire

On Thursday, July 10, 2008 at about 3:30 PM local time, the Valley View Fire started in the Dishman Hills area.^[2] As of Friday morning it burned 1,200 acres (4.9 km²) and destroyed 11 homes. Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire declared a state of emergency for Spokane County. A mandatory evacuation was ordered in the area and two shelters were set up around Spokane Valley.

A follow up story by the Spokesman Review on July 16, 2008 revealed that the fire's origin was a smoldering fire made by a resident of South Eastern Lane. The smoldering fire had been started days before the Dishman Hills Fire, and was left unattended inside of an old tree stump before it was whipped up by fierce winds on the afternoon of Thursday, July 11.^[3] These same winds spread the fire quickly across the Dishman Hills and threatened hundreds of homes along Dishman-Mica Road. Moreover, many homes in the Park Drive area (between the fire's origin and the Dishman Hills Natural Area) were in the direct path of the fire.

Among other things, some factors in the spread of the fire were the unprecedented wind speeds,^[4] and the amount of natural fuel in the Dishman Hills area (especially, fast burning ground fuels sprouted following Spokane's long winter).

References

External links

Dishman Hills Natural Area Association

Protected areas of Washington

Federal

National Parks	Mount Rainier North Cascades Olympic

National Monuments	Hanford Reach (USFWS) Mount St. Helens Volcanic (USFS) San Juan Islands (BLM)

National Historical Parks & Sites	Fort Vancouver NHS Klondike Gold Rush NHP Nez Perce NHP San Juan Island NHP Whitman Mission NHS

National Historical Reserves	Ebey's Landing

National Trails	Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Pacific Crest Trail Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail

NPS National Recreation Areas	Lake Chelan Lake Roosevelt Ross Lake

National Wildlife Refuges	Columbia Conboy Lake Copalis Dungeness Flattery Rocks Franz Lake Grays Harbor Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer Lewis and Clark Little Pend Oreille McNary Nisqually Pierce Protection Island Quillayute Needles Ridgefield Saddle Mountain San Juan Islands Steigerwald Lake Toppenish Turnbull Umatilla Willapa

National Forests	Colville Gifford Pinchot Idaho Panhandle Kaniksu Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Okanogan Olympic Umatilla Wenatchee

USFS National Recreation Areas	Mount Baker

National Wilderness	Alpine Lakes Boulder River Brothers Buckhorn Clearwater Colonel Bob Glacier Peak Glacier View Goat Rocks Henry M. Jackson Indian Heaven Juniper Dunes Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Ridge Mount Adams Mount Baker Mount Rainier Mount Skokomish Noisy-Diobsud Norse Peak Olympic Pasayten Salmo-Priest San Juan Stephen Mather Tatoosh Trapper Creek Washington Islands Wenaha–Tucannon Wild Sky William O. Douglas Wonder Mountain

National Marine Sanctuary & Estuarine Research Reserve	Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Klickitat Skagit White Salmon

State

State Parks	Alta Lake Anderson Lake Battle Ground Lake Bay View Beacon Rock Belfair Birch Bay Blake Island Blind Island Bogachiel Bottle Beach Bridgeport Bridle Trails Brooks Memorial Cama Beach Camano Island Camp Wooten Environmental Learning Center Cape Disappointment Centennial Trail Clark Island Columbia Hills Columbia Plateau Trail Conconully Crawford Curlew Lake Cutts Island Damon Point Daroga Dash Point Deception Pass Dosewallips Doug's Beach Eagle Island Fay Bainbridge Federation Forest Fields Spring Flaming Geyser Fort Casey Fort Columbia Fort Ebey Fort Flagler Fort Okanogan Fort Simcoe Fort Townsend Fort Worden Ginkgo Petrified Forest Goldendale Observatory Grayland Beach Griffin Bay Griffiths-Priday Harstine Island Hope Island (Mason County) Hope Island (Skagit County) Ike Kinswa Illahee Iron Horse James Island Jarrell Cove Joemma Beach Jones Island Joseph Whidbey Kanaskat-Palmer Kinney Point Kitsap Memorial Kopachuck Lake Chelan Lake Easton Lake Sammamish Lake Sylvia Lake Wenatchee Larrabee Leadbetter Point Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark Trail Lime Kiln Point Lincoln Rock Manchester Maryhill Matia Island McMicken Island Millersylvania Moran Mount Pilchuck Mount Spokane Mystery Bay Nine Mile Recreation Area Nolte Ocean City Olallie Olmstead Place Osoyoos Lake Pacific Beach Pacific Pines Palouse Falls Paradise Point Patos Island Peace Arch Pearrygin Lake Penrose Point Peshastin Pinnacles Pleasant Harbor Posey Island Potholes Potlatch Rainbow Falls Rasar Reed Island Riverside Rockport Sacajawea Saint Edward Saltwater Scenic Beach Schafer Seaquest Sequim Bay Shine Tidelands Skagit Island Skull Island South Whidbey Spencer Spit Squak Mountain Squilchuck Steamboat Rock Steptoe Battlefield Steptoe Butte Stretch Point Stuart Island Sucia Island Sun Lakes Tolmie Triton Cove Turn Island Twanoh Twenty-Five Mile Creek Twin Harbors Upright Channel Wallace Falls Wanapum Recreational Area Wenatchee Confluence Westport Light Yakima Sportsman

State Forests	Ahtanum Capitol Elbe Hills Green Mountain Loomis Loup Loup Tahoma Tahuya Tiger Mountain Yacolt Burn

Natural Area Preserves	Admiralty Inlet Badger Gulch Bald Hill Barker Mountain Bone River Camas Meadows Carlisle Bog Castle Rock Charley Creek Chehalis River Surge Plain Chopaka Mountain Clearwater Bogs Cleveland Shrub Steppe Columbia Falls Columbia Hills Cypress Highlands Dabob Bay Dailey Prairie Davis Canyon Entiat Slopes Goose Island Gunpowder Island Hamma Hamma Balds Ink Blot Kahlotus Ridgetop Kennedy Creek Kings Lake Bog Kitsap Forest Lacamas Prairie Natural Area Little Pend Oreille River Marcellus Shrub Steppe Methow Rapids Mima Mounds Monte Cristo Niawiakum River North Bay Oak Patch Olivine Bridge Pinecroft Point Doughty Riverside Breaks Rocky Prairie Sand Island Schumacher Creek Selah Cliffs Skagit Bald Eagle Skookum Inlet Snoqualmie Bog Spring Creek Canyon Trout Lake The Two-Steppe Upper Dry Gulch Washougal Oaks Natural Area Whitcomb Flats Willapa Divide

Natural Resources Conservation Areas	Cattle Point Clearwater Corridor Cypress Island Devils Lake Dishman Hills Elk River Ellsworth Creek Granite Lakes Hat Island Hendrickson Canyon Klickitat Canyon Lake Louise Loomis Lummi Island Merrill Lake Middle Fork Snoqualmie Morning Star Mount Si Rattlesnake Mountain Scenic Area Shipwreck Point South Nemah South Nolan Stavis Table Mountain Tahoma Forest Teal Slough Washougal Oaks Natural Area West Tiger Mountain White Salmon Oak Woodard Bay

Other

Former state parks	Fort Ward Park Lyons Ferry Park Mukilteo Lighthouse Park Wenberg County Park

Coordinates: 47°38′48″N 117°17′13″W / 47.64667°N 117.28694°W / 47.64667; -117.28694

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