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Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Setting |
| Relation | River in Common |
| Date | 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 204.365 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description |
II. The Setting A. The Physical Environment The headwaters of the Columbia River are in Canada, near the Selkirk Mountains, the "high roof of the continent."1 The river is 1,214 miles long, measuring from the Canadian headwaters.' By the time it has collected contributions from all its tributaries, the Columbia carries almost 200 million acre-feet of water. On average, the Columbia carries ten times as much water as the Colorado River and 2.5 times as much as the Nile.' It is the fourth... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1226 |
