Moses Coulee till, up to thick in places. This glacial till, made up of clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobblestones, and erratic boulders, covers most of the upper coulee. Today Moses Coulee supports an excellent example of a shrub-steppe ecoregion. Vegetation includes sagebrush, rabbitbrush, greasewood, hopsage, bitterbrush, bunchgrass, buckwheat and other vegetation once common to most of the Columbia Plateau. The Nature Conservancy has established the Moses Coulee Preserve, which is a contiguous, intact shrub-steppe habitat. It is located south of Jameson Lake near the head of Moses Coulee. It provide habitat for a rich variety of birds (lazuli bunting, common goldeneye, sage
Coulee City, Washington Coulee City, Washington Coulee City is a town in Grant County, Washington. The population was 562 at the 2010 census. The town was named after nearby Grand Coulee. Coulee City was officially incorporated on May 10, 1907. Coulee City is located at (47.611942, -119.290904). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 562 people, 265 households, and 150 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 331 housing units at an average density of . The racial