View looking west from Angel's Rest. Bridal Veil on Columbia River in foreground. In the foreground is a tree-covered sloping hillside leading down to the river. The river bends to the right and there is a dock visible on the left-hand bank of the...
2004-03-01
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Master scanned with Epson 1640XL at 800 dpi. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
1946-04-30
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On verso of image: Gillnet power boat on Columbia River.
In Folder 215
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Money statement.
July 1, 1898, balance unexpended $12, 404. 58
June .30, 1899, amount expended during fiscal year 1, 747. 34
July 1, 1899, balance unexpended 10, 657. 24
July 1, 1899, outstanding liabilities 587. 13
July 1, 1899,...
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"The Willamette River has the largest runs of spring chinook salmon of any tributary of the Columbia River rising in Oregon. The run to the Willamette is most unique in that the migrating fish pass up the river through Portland, a city of several...
1947 (iso8601)
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Master scanned with Epson 1640XL at 800 dpi. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
1946-04-30
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The Columbia River Channel Improvement Project (CRCIP) was constructed along 166.6 km (103.5 miles) of Columbia River (from River Mile 3 to 106.5), which was from Interstate 5 Bridge (between Portland and Vancouver) to the river mouth, before...
2013-07-31 (iso8601)
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of the male changes to various shades of black or red, the sockeye becoming a bright red. The lower jaw of the male elongates until it is projecting, both jaws become hooked, the front teeth get very long and canine-like, sometimes so much so that...
2004-07-26
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Image Caption: CAPE HORN --page break-- a delta at its mouth extending northward from the base of the mountains about two miles towards the Washington shore, and upstream, in the Columbia, about three miles to near Taylor Siding, on the railway;...
2004-07-22
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2 p. Article detailing the salmon fishing industry on the Columbia River, including providing details on salmon spawning and the use of fish wheels. The use of Chinese, Scandinavian, and Russian immigrants in the fishing and canning is described....
1896-09-19
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duplication in federal government operations and, therefore, Columbia River navigational charts should not be published or maintained by the CE.
Item 10 (enclosure 1 of your letter) seems to infer that water depths on the Columbia River NOS...
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Brief article detailing the use of fishing wheels for catching salmon on the Columbia River. Most of the page is taken up by a drawing of a fishing boat equipped with a fishing wheel. The drawing shows four men on the boat who are pulling the fish...
1899-10-14
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Black and white image of four men, one of whom is shoveling smelt from the bottom of a boat into wooden boxes. The boxes have the words "From the Columbia River Smelt Co. Kelso, Wash." stamped on them. The man doing the shoveling is an older man...
2004-03-24
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1 map : 19 x 13 cm. "Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 186, 1st sess., 47th Cong." Scale approximately 2 miles to 1 inch. A larger scale version of this map can be seen at: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu480
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1 map : 19 x 13 cm. "Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 186, 1st sess., 47th Cong." Scale approximately 2 miles to 1 inch. A larger scale version of this map can be seen at: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu480
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1 map : 19 x 13 cm. "Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 186, 1st sess., 47th Cong." Scale approximately 2 miles to 1 inch. A larger scale version of this map can be seen at: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu480
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Large river basins integrate the signal of water from atmospheres to oceans. Climate change is
widely expected to alter streamflow and potentially disrupt water management systems. We
tested the ecological resilience -- capacity of headwater...
2013-06-20 (iso8601)
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The 1950 legislation also authorized two additional flood control dams on the Willamette River and its tributaries. Devastating floods had periodically occurred on this branch of the Columbia, which drains the fertile Willamette Valley in western...
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CHAPTER III
Plans, Costs, and Benefits The potential development of water resources outlined in the report (United States portion of the basin only) embraces 238 separate projects, large and small. Many of them are multiple-purpose... |
VIII. Conclusion
It is fair to ask if the Columbia Basin offers models that could be of use to other western river basins as they take on conflicts between traditional water uses and environmental needs, and it is just as fair to answer this... |
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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APPENDIX UU----REPORT OF MAJOR HANDJ3URY. 2833
finished April 30. This is all the permanent work in the Willamette
River, called for by the projeot. Since their completion the dikes have
boon covered by back water from the...
2006-06-16
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A colored postcard view of the Columbia River. In the top right-hand corner in red the text reads "Bridge of the Gods, Columbia River. On line of O. R. & N. Co." In the foreground of the picture is a rocky shore, and similar rocky islands are...
2004-08-04
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A black-and-white stereoscopic view. The caption reads "10543, Oneata Gorge. Columbia River, Oregon". On the cardboard mounting at the left is printed "James M. Davis, New York City, and St. Louis, Mo." The water of the river runs placidly over...
2004-08-03
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Existing location of the Great Northern Railroad and State Highway No. 22, paralleling the Columbia River above Bossburg, Washington. The railway at this point will be inundated, but the highway will not since it is at elevation 1310 or higher.
1938-06-03
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