Guide to the Horner Museum Oral History Collection1952-1993

The Horner Museum Oral History Collection consists of more than 250 oral history interviews conducted or assembled by the Horner Museum. The interviews address a variety of topics including the stories of Oregon State University faculty, students,...

Appendix KK21

KK 21. SURVEY OF BAR AT MOUTH OF COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington, January 22, 1879. SIR : I have the honor to submit herewith two copies of a report to this office...

pages 62-63

Image Caption: COLUMBIA RIVER AT FAIRMONT --page break-- across the valley, from one mountain slope to the other, and the River channel, like a thread of silver, meanders through it, with innumerable, what appeared to be small lakes...

2004-07-06

West Cofferdam Flooded

Looking south (upstream) after flooding west end of dam foundation - showing the four main diversion slots, the timber plug between blocks 49 and 50 to cells in section "G" of west cofferdam and to the right the east end of west powerhouse. Center...

1936-11-20
2024-11-26

Cement Testing Lab

Testing laboratory in Westmix.

1936-10-01
2024-11-26

page III-130

Source PI-112 WI-53 PI-50, 53 W-6 F-19 Tentative Disposition F E PI-51 F-19 WI-70 F-19 PI-50, 87, 101 F-19 D F F Problem or Area of Concern 4. Any policies or judgments involved in the use of land should be subjected...

page III-106

Source WI-72 F-17 Tentative Disposition E WI-72 A F-17 WI-72 PI-10, 21 WI-70 C F-17 Problem or Area of Concern 4. The off-shore (commercial fishing) limit should be extended to protect fisheries. COMMENT: This issue...

page III-98

Source F-7 W-2, 6 0-1, 3 SI-19, 26, 39, 51, 58, 74, 76, 78 WI-9, 16, 36, 38 PI-5, 10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 23, 28 37, 38, 42, 50, 60, 92 F-3 SI-1, 21, 31, 54 WI-3, 12, 27, 28 PI-6, 12, 16, 20, 21, 40, 50 WI-70 WI-70...

page III-18

Problem or Area of Concern 8.(Cont) COMMENT: Where definite project sites prove justified, desired by the public and are authorized by the Congress, it is possible to make advance land acquisition. However, there is no definite long-range...

page 150

Map Symbol B3 placement of any facilities. Wildlife is a known concern, as on all Columbia River islands. The RIZ is Zone 2. DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL: Proposed facilities are boat moorage and dispersed campsites. Scenic appreciation and nature...

Fish-tail Falls

Fish-tail falls, found in the upper Entiat box canyon, is a barrier to salmon.

1938-11-30

Big Sandy channel dam

Master scanned with Epson 1640XL at 800 dpi. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

1940-02-29
2003-01-01

Bull Run diversion

Portland water department Bull Run diversion

1940-02-29
2003-01-01

Hapgood and Co.'s Cannery, Waterford, Washington, ca. 1897

Caption on mount: Mess' Hapgood and Co.'s Cannery, Columbia River, Washington

PH Coll 293.43

A captured island chain in the coast range of Oregon and Washington

K-Ar and ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar geochronologic data reveal the Paleocene to Eocene eruptive history of volcanic centers which produced the basaltic basement rocks of the Coast Range of Oregon and Washington. Volcanism was short lived at each center and...

1982-12-10 (iso8601)

West Pier of Highway Bridge

Here, early in the spring of 1934, the Western Construction Company is starting excavation for the west pier of the highway bridge, with a clamshell bucket working behind a wooden cofferdam. In the foreground is a similar arrangement for the east...

2024-11-26

page 26

Warren Marple recalls that the Interstate Compact Commission and the CBIAC were rivals, at least in the early stages. Roy Scheufele, on the other hand, did not perceive that the Compact Commission represented a threat to the CBIAC. He did relate,...

A Plan to Transport Surplus Columbia River Basin Water to the Arid Pacific Northwest

Document: "Snake-Colorado Project, A Plan to Transport Surplus Columbia River Basin Water to the Arid Southwest", October, 1963, page 17

1963-10-01

Experimental reintroduction of northern wormwood (Artemisia campestris var....

Rare plant reintroductions that result in additional or more viable wild populations are important conservation tools for maintaining biodiverse ecosystems. Ideally, such projects are best designed as experiments, to improve biological and...

2013-06-10 (iso8601)

Structures - Drops, conc[rete] - Negatives

Images of concrete drop structures in fields

2007-01-02
2007-01-02

page 83

tion with the Columbia Basin joint investigations, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation. The greater part of the shipments by water to the project, it is assumed, will consist of petroleum products, which now constitute the chief traffic up...

page 380

380 REPOET OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY. and spur dikes, and shore protection works to deepen the water over Dry Stocking Bar, at the mouth of Hoquarton Slough, and to remove snags and overhanging trees from Hoquarton Slough....

2006-06-16

pages image-271

Image captions: NIGHT WAS FALLING AS WE HEADED INTO BOX CANYON (above)
THE COLUMBIA ABOVE BOX CANYON (below) --page break-- The rock-littered channel of Moneghan's or Buckley's Rapids was easily threaded by the launch, and Equilibrium or...

2004-08-16

Sketch Map Columbia River Region

SKETCH MAP COLUMBIA RIVER REGION BRITISH COLUMBIA WASHINGTON TERR. MONTANA PACIFIC OCEAN IDAHO WYOMING OREGON CALIFORNIA NEVADA UTAH VANCOUVER'S ISLAND Sent to the Chief of Engineers with Annual Report of 1885...

Gauging waters of the Columbia River and principal tributaries

[unrelated material omitted] 13. Gauging waters of the Columbia River and principal tributaries.— A self-registering gauge was operated at Astoria during July, August, and September, and record of reports of pilots made, to test the value...

2006-02-27