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goes from one side to another. Unexpectedly the steamer will head straight for the mountains of the opposite bank, and you wonder if you are going to land when, with a sudden turn of the wheel, the pilot disappoints you once again. The channel is...
2004-03-02
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tion, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter called the Secretary), may find proper for carrying out the projects to the end of providing water for the irrigation of approximately 357,000 acres of land in the areas...
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motivate such initiatives as British Columbia's proposed "Sustainability Act," a provincial land-use strategy,63 the U.S. Forest Service's ecosystem management plans, and the regional and federal programs to restore salmon.
It is by no means...
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The Columbia River Treaty has been in effect for over 45 years, but its future is uncertain. Starting in 2014, Canada and the United States will have the opportunity to announce ten years’ notice for termination of the current arrangement. As...
2011-05-25 (iso8601)
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motivate such initiatives as British Columbia's proposed "Sustainability Act," a provincial land-use strategy,63 the U.S. Forest Service's ecosystem management plans, and the regional and federal programs to restore salmon.
It is by no means...
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Historically the Columbia River was amongst the most productive salmonidbearing watersheds in North America. Currently, salmonid populations have collapsed and are estimated at ten percent of historic levels. Because of this, there are thirteen,...
2014-05-01
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and which make the farmer independent of the rainfall, and his crop a certainty. At the Boundary the average annual rainfall is 30 inches, and there is a continual decrease until at the mouth of Snake River there is but 9 inches. This small...
2004-07-20
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River, but had no success. The next morning, with an empty boat, I rowed the two miles up Bush River against a rather stiff current, and then wound my way up the crooked outlet of the lakes. Fishing all day, without even getting a nibble, I...
2004-07-12
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Run-off data for representative gaging stations in Columbia River Basin
River Locality
Drainage area in square miles
Records available. (Note.—Dash after date means station maintained to date.)
Average annual flow Oct. 1, 1930, to Sept....
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Suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the Columbia River is a mixture of particles of
several origins having varying physical and biogeochemical properties. The relative
abundances of these freshwater particles changes with season and apparently...
2001-05-07 (iso8601)
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This actually occurred, and by comparing the last survey (accompanying this report) with those previously made iii 1867 and 1868, it will be seen that the current washed out the sand so as to make a channel carrying 12 feet of water iii places...
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A short distance below Bridgeport I passed the little square-nosed steamboat Bridgeport plowing her way upstream against the current. She is the only steamboat on the Columbia River between the Arrow Lakes and The Dalles City. Captain Fred...
2004-07-19
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LUMBER RAFTS ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER. The States of Oregon and Washington have seen a remarkable development of the method of transporting lumber to California by sea in the form of large built-up rafts, and although the increase in the price of...
2004-03-02
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ileges are transferable, there will be relatively few opportunities of this sort available to new settlers. Hence, it will be desirable to advise new settlers to make livestock ventures self-contained. This opportunity as well as that for...
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when the actual construction cost of each project is finally determined, the Secretary shall report to the President and the Congress showing as to that project : Actual construction cost, the amount thereof assigned to be repaid by the water...
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The collection consists of one album of the construction of Bonneville Dam, 1934-1936. Images by R.W. Oliver and Bichel; most unsigned. Shows housing, equipment, excavation, construction, spillways. Some workers are named.; Biographical/Historical...
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This collection consists of publications, press releases, brochures, proceedings, and other material of the Inland Empire Waterways Association.; Quoted from Guide to the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association Records (Whitman College, Walla...
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refuges, aggregating about 4,500 acres. The Columbia River National Wildlife Refuge was established to preserve a few of the many sandy islands and shore lands of the river which are used as nesting areas by Canada geese. Jointly, these refuges...
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Act July 11, 1870 $31, 000
Act June 10, 1872 50, 000 --$160, 365
Act March 3, 1873, Lower Willamette and Columbia, from Portland,
Oreg., to the sea 20, 000
Act June '23, 1874 20, 000
Act March 3, 1875 20, 000
Act August 14,...
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around Bend, Oreg., depletion of timber supply is exceeding current and potential growth, indicating the necessity for a future reduction in the saw-log cut. The rate of cutting on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, located on the eastern slope...
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which cut through the wheatlands in the big bend of the Columbia are especially productive of waterfowl. The food and water available in this section and along the Columbia River and its tributaries also serve to spread out the immense flights of...
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The spectacular rise of windsurfing triggered several studies of boardsailing in the Gorge. The State of Oregon commissioned the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Study (Oregon State Parks and Windsurfing Committee, 1986). The following year saw the...
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The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials
including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books; Dennis M. Powers first began writing poetry while practicing law in Santa Barbara. Later
his...
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gree of accuracy than I had expected. Soundings, when taken in a strong current, are liable to much error from the difficulty of getting a perpendicular reading; I wait,
therefore, gratified to find the depths taken when the reduction vas it...
2004-08-26
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uses. The notice reserves this quantity of water from allocation.102 Yet, the project's operations for hydropower, flood control, and salmon are governed by a separate complex of federal laws. Bureau of Reclamation projects on other tributaries,...
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