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to the vast areas of mountain wilderness and sagebrush desert which are virtually uninhabited. Much the greater part of the basin has a sparse population; concentrations are limited to scattered areas. The average population density of 10 persons...
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variably three. Many of the spurs of the hills reach the River in a succession of narrow, rocky points, necessitating short tunnels' on the railways paralleling the stream. At one place on the North Bank Road I counted five tunnels in a half mile....
2004-07-22
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stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development; to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range; and for other purposes,"...
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It is important to avoid misallocation of resources for either
private or public production. Misallocation in public programs
can result from failure to employ resources in h:igh priority uses
or to eliminate programs that have become obsolete....
1968-04-10 (iso8601)
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Lake, a 27-mile long irrigation reservoir. 30 Irrigation works take the water from there. The project first began irrigating fields in 1951. 31 It now irrigates about 560,000 acres with canals as big as rivers. It has a huge drainage system to...
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("the intertie"), as long as the power could be called back if the Northwest needed it. A Southwest consortium put up the money, the treaty projects were built, and headwater storage on the Columbia more than doubled."
The treaty went a long way...
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This collection consists of reports, programs, pamphlets, and brochures published by the Columbia Basin Irrigation League.; The Columbia Basin Irrigation League was formed at Pasco, WA, in 1922. The organization was created to promote the Columbia...
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Reclamation for irrigation and power developments. A division of construction responsibility between the Bureau of Reclamation and the War Department with respect to multiple-purpose storage projects and power projects which is in line with...
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large-scale irrigation works were constructed and successful methods for dry-land wheat farming were developed on the semiarid lands. During a period of more than average rainfall in the early 1900's both irrigated and dry lands were settled...
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hydroelectric power.
It was recognized that integration of the new projects and their transmission facilities with the existing system would be a matter of long-range planning requiring coordination and management in order to achieve maximum...
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projects in the state were authorized: Minidoka in the Upper Snake Basin (1904) and the Boise Project in the Lower Basin (1906). Managing new storage water rights with existing surface water rights created new complications, and in the 1920s...
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The Henry's Fork. The Henry's Fork Watershed Council in northeast Idaho, near Yellowstone National Park, is one of the Basin's better-known watershed planning processes. The Henry's Fork is a world-class trout stream, cherished by anglers: The...
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only existing developments on the main stem of the Snake River.
Irrigation.—Including land irrigated by diversion from Malad River, which is fed by springs a short distance back from the Snake, the total area served from the main stem by...
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irrigated from that stream in 1939. About 3,000 acres of this land lie below Willow Creek Reservoir No. 3, of 50,000 acre-feet capacity. This reservoir was built in 1910 but it has never filled. The remaining 20,200 acres of irrigated land in the...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This document describes the rationale for and implementation of an Integrated Land Management (ILM) Plan for the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). The proposal is the recommendation of 5 representative stakeholders in the...
2024-11-21
2006-11-15 2005-06-02 |
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which improvements would be made for flood-control purposes.
Power.—Full development of the Grande Ronde project would involve four power plants, one each at the Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek Dams, and two in connection with the Little...
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The Twin Falls-Minidoka-Gooding area occupies a portion of the Snake River Valley and is made up of the counties of Gooding, Lincoln, Minidoka, Jerome, Twin Falls, and Cassia, Idaho. The large irrigated acreage on the Snake River Plain, where live...
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Flood control, channel and levee improvements cont.
Mill Creek, MC (S) 273, 285
Palouse River—3 projects, C. Wash. (S) 248
Yakima River near Ellensburg, C. Wash. (S) 248
Snake River-Jackson Hole, US (S) 128
Flood plain, LC (S) 313,...
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Surface-water-quality conditions were assessed in the Yakima River Basin, which drains 6,155 square miles of mostly forested, range, and agricultural land in Washington. The Yakima River Basin is one of the most intensively farmed and irrigated...
1998-11-21
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Ground Waters
Variation in subsurface materials results in marked local differences in ground-water supplies.
Ground water is reasonably abundant in the alluvial fans which fringe the floor of the Willamette Valley. In the southern part of the...
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Power projects authorized—Bureau of Reclamation,
Department of the Interior
Annual production
(million kilowatt-hours)
State and project
Finn Secondary
Idaho:
Palisades 30. 0 131 99
Anderson Ranch 40. 5 _ _ _ 118
Montana:...
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Irrigation Project Lands
The character and disposition of materials underlying the soils of irrigated lands are of great significance to the development and use of those lands. As indicated subsequently, the character of the soil layer of lands...
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The same parties collaborated in water conservation measures to address instream and out-of-stream needs. Working with the Environmental Defense Fund, they developed a water marketing pilot project to work in conjunction with Washington's Trust...
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2.5 million acres of land for irrigation.' The Yakima Valley had a boom of its own between 1890 and 1910, when 5000 new irrigated farms sprouted. By 1902, it had the Northwest's largest irrigation project, sponsored in large part by railroads...
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of power by electro-metallurgical and electro-chemical industries, heavy residential use is indicated by the fact that 87 percent of all dwellings in the region had electric service in 1940. The Pacific Northwest thus ranks among the most widely...
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