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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...

A black-and-white stereographic photograph. A white man sits at the prow of a wooden rowboat which is pulled partway onto a bank of the Columbia River. He wears a hat with a rounded crown and wide brim, a light shirt and jacket, sturdy pants and...
2004-08-03
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
duplication in federal government operations and, therefore, Columbia River navigational charts should not be published or maintained by the CE.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...

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
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
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 The next section of the map moving...
1882-11-01

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 The next section of the map moving...
1882-11-01

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 The next section of the map moving...
1882-11-01

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)
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...

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...

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
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
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
CHAPTER IX
REVELSTOKE TO THE SPOKANE The voyage round the Big Bend, in spite of the atrocious weather, had gone so well that I had just about made up my mind to continue on down river by the time we reached Revelstoke. A letter which awaited...
2004-08-11
Map Symbol C4 Map Symbol R1 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL: Reconstruct the campground to handle 530 people. Allow full service automobile, RV, and tent camping, as well as picnicking, hiking, scenic appreciation, and interpretation. The site is fully...

Central Washington "In no other subdivision is there greater opportunity to use water resources in broadening the agricultural and industrial bases of the economy. . . . Utilization of the water resources of the main stem of the Columbia River...

Grand Coulee Dam hydrograph of Columbia River
2024-11-01
2024-11-01
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON A description of the Columbia River would not be complete without something more than a reference to that most highly-prized of all fish, the Salmon; and which, more than any other of its products,...
2004-07-22
The average size and age of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) caught in commercial fisheries along the Pacific Coast of North America have decreased substantially in this century. These declines might be caused in part by changes in size...
1992-02-18 (iso8601)
southeast. Nearly all of the installations in the Columbia Basin are driven by falling water, but in the Portland and Puget Sound areas there are many fuel-burning plants. The region as a whole, however, is an outstanding hydroelectric power...

KCAMATH FALLS. QREEON THE OREGON PLAN FOR SALMON AND WATERSHEDS The purpose of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds ( the " Oregon Plan") as stated in the Plan and reaffirmed in this Executive Order is to restore Oregon's wild salmon and...
1999-11-01
2005-02-08
2004-12-22
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