Table 2:8.
Recreation Opportunity Spectrum
Setting Characterization
Primitive
Area is characterized by essentially unmodified natural environment of fairly large size. Interaction between users is very low and evidence of other users is...
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Inventory and Analysis
The shortcoming of this pattern of regulation was that uneven, and often inadequate, consideration was given to the effects of timber management upon other resources. Scenic qualities in particular received little...
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CHAPTER 2:
The Gorge Today
Introduction
Before determining how best to manage the resources in the National Scenic Area, it was essential to understand more about the uses and resources which could affect and be affected by the decisions....
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Preliminary Land Use Designations and
Recreation Intensity Zones
Besides knowing where the sensitive resources are, the analysts had to consider how sensitive they were to human caused impacts. Various protection measures, including...
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Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1:
Background 1
Scenic Area Act History 2
Provisions of the Act 4
The Planning Process 9
Plan Implementation 15
Public Involvement 16
CHAPTER 2:
The Gorge Today 19
Introduction 19...
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daily/weekly periods of low power demand. As daily power demands increase, the flow can be reversed through the pump-turbines and power generated to meet peak demands. Two 50 mw units were placed in operation in 1974, and four more are planned....
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Image captions: Linemen hold a sock used to pull the conductor across the Columbia River (Vancouver-Eugene line). Gin pole in use on the Vancouver-Kelso line.
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December 1973, an agreement on concepts was announced. From it evolved a general blueprint for projecting the program beyond 1981. The projection became known as Phase 2 of the Hydro-Thermal Power Program. The Phase 2 planning as of early 1975...
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tricts in the respective states. By the winter of
1938, 25 Washington public utility districts,
the Seattle and Tacoma municipal systems,
and a number of smaller municipalities were
eligible to receive Bonneville power under the...
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plants were small and served a limited locality. (The tremendous hydro potential of the Columbia River was not tapped until 1932 when Puget Sound Power & Light Company completed its dam at Rock Island below Wenatchee, Washington, —although a...
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Third, in February, 1974, public hearings were held in Walla Walla for managing the lower Snake River. Minimum flow projections brought severe criticism from Idaho and concern from federal power development agencies, thus underlining the need for...
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them to be a more positive force in river basin planning. The State of Washington has consolidated the several water planning functions into a new Department of Ecology. A Water Resources Board was established in Oregon and the state legislature...
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1935-05-22 (iso8601)
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the Northwest, including both large pumping installations and small individual farm pumping plants.
8. Analysis of prospective use of electrical farm production equipment of various types.
9. Estimate of probable future trends in street and...
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lands is integrated with that of the Federal lands in varying manner and extent, as agreed upon by the respective owners.
Regulated, moderate use of the grazing lands permits large numbers of livestock and game animals to be grazed upon them,...
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Letter: To Mr. Chairman, from Stewart Udall, February 15, 1967, page 7
1967-02-15
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Letter: To Wayne N. Aspinall, from Anthoy Wayne Smith, September 14 1965, (mimeograph), page 1
1965-09-14
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Memorandum: To The Record, from F. J. Flynn, "Request from Congresswoman Reinecke for information," July 15, 1966
1966-07-15
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Letter: From Walter W. Heller, to Mr. Hughes, April 3, 1964, page 2
1964-04-03
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drainage water in the winter time because of (3) above, and thus reduce Arizona' allotment for consumptive use under the anticipated Supreme Court decision, (2) above. The proposal by the United States Panel that additional wells and a bypass...
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tolerated. There remains, however, an urgent need for further research to determine methods of forest and range land-use practices which will permit the maximum economic use of the land resources without adversely affecting the usefulness of...
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Image captions: Old growth Douglas fir and hemlock in Willamette Valley, Oreg.
Sawmill near Eugene, Oreg., across storage pond.
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