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Prior to the advent of the helicopter, the "gin pole" technique was the principal method of tower erection. A long pole with a pulley at one end was lashed to the existing frame. Then, by horsepower or manpower, the next section of the tower was...
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Label on verso: US WPA 661
WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 10-9-40; O.P. No.; Zone 1; County: Stevens; City; Neg. C-703; Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Sawing, felling trees, across river...
2024-05-04
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part or revision thereof, has been adopted with the concurrence of the member appointed by the President, the exercise of any powers conferred by law on any officer, agency or instrumentality of the United States with regard to water and related...
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Label on verso: WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 9-12-40: O.P. No.; Zone 3; Photo by: Morgan Fitz;
County: Stevens; City: Kettle; Neg. Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Logging in...
2024-05-04
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perception appears potentially to unite the states on other issues, even though it is not a negotiable issue in and of itself.
9. Out-of-basin diversion to the southwest was perceived by almost all of those persons interviewed, to be detrimental...
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with electric refrigerators (in contrast to 71 percent of the Nation) ; 35 percent have electric ranges; and only about 12 percent have electric water heaters.
For the fully electrified home of the future, the estimated power requirements would...
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News articles, maps, photographs, and other graphics related to the history of the Colville Indians and the taking of Colville Reservation land for the Wells Dam Project
2024-05-04
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Memorandum: From Stewart Udall, For the President, The Lower Colorado River Project and the California-Arizona Controvery, April 1965 (carbon copy), page 7
1965-04-01
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Image captions: Hop yards and kiln near Yakima, Wash., Yakima project.
Hop yards near Yakima, Wash., Yakima project.
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tion on the west-facing slopes tends to increase rapidly with elevation, reaching 46 inches at Roland, Idaho, with elevation of 4,150 feet.
Distribution of the precipitation is markedly seasonal, the maximum occurring during the winter. At...
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KEY MAP
IRRIGATED AREAS NON-IRRIGATED AREAS
ADAPTED FROM MAPS BY BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CENTRAL SNAKE
CROP LAND
The differing physical conditions of the three principal parts of the basin have...
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Because of water-right controversies there has been a virtual moratorium on water resources development in the Pacific Southwest for the past 20 years. During that period, the Federal Government has invested only modest amounts in the region. In...
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severe, as indicated by percentages of 21.6 and 20.9, respectively, for Idaho and Montana.
A large part of the war workers planned to stay, and evidently are remaining in their present locations, and many more doubtless will seek opportunities...
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The Snake River strain of sockeye was declared endangered in 1991 in response to the decline in the number of anadromous adults returning to nursery lakes in the Snake River watershed. These fish historically migrated over 1,400 km from the...
1994-01-01
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along at three miles an hour; five seconds later, having slid over the "intake," it was doing more than twenty. The actual slope of that first short pitch must have been all of one-in-ten, so that I found myself bracing against the incline of the...
2004-08-16
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Image captions: LANDING AT SUNSET ABOVE CANOE RIVER (above)
ANDY AND BLACKMORE SWINGING THE BOAT INTO THE HEAD OF ROCK SLIDE RAPIDS (centre) THE BIG ROLLERS, FROM 15 TO 20 FEET FROM HOLLOW TO CREST, AT HEAD OF DEATH RAPIDS (below)...
2004-08-10
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tervals, generally two minutes, was determined by theodolite readings at the two shore stations on Cape Hancock and Fort Stevens, used during my survey of May and June, 1881. The methods were in every respect the same as used on that survey,...
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Image Caption: NO. 400.-CANAL SIDE OF "PROTECTION EMBANKMENT OR WING" SEPARATING THE COLUMBIA RIVER FROM THE LOWER ENTRANCE TO CANAL AT CASCADE LOCKS, OREGON. DAMAGED
BY HIGH WATER IN 1894 AND TO BE REBUILT WITH THE APPROPRIATION OF MARCH 3, 1899
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It is not the purpose to analyze the changes which have taken place in the channel and other features— which, however, have been mainly dependent upon the movement of Sand Island with its shoal, and of Clatsop Spit—nor determine whether the...
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as to be serviceable for one year more probably. The rivers throughout the year have been in a good navigable state from Portland to the sea, except during the first ten days immediately after the subsidence of the freshet; the bars were then all...
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degrees, and average precipitation 45 inches; has the same latitude as Halifax, and yet, 1,100 varieties of roses bloom out-of-doors ten months in the year, and the annual 'Rose Festival,' held in June, is a sight never to be forgotten." --page...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: BAY AT HEAD OF PRIEST RAPIDS, LOOKING WEST --page break-- head of the fourth rapid, a part of the River is diverted along the right shore for two miles to a small power station.
The first six sections of Priest Rapids are...
2004-07-20
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6 miles westward of Point Adams, had been cut through midway between the point and its western extremity by a wide channel, with 17 to 18 feet of water, running south by west from Sand Island, or at right angles with the corresponding channel of...
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To indicate the approach to the south channel from the sea, there is an automatic buoy 1 mile seaward of black buoy No. 1, which gives a distinguishable blast in moderate weather.
ASTORIA STATISTICS.
I am under obligation to the Hon. W. D....
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A three-dimensional computer model of ground-water flow
in the Pullman-Moscow area of Washington and Idaho was
constructed in 1987 to address concerns over increasing
pumpage rates and declining ground-water levels in the Grande
Ronde Formation of...
1994-05-04
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