Record Details
Putting the River to Work
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Putting the River to Work |
| 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. 206.08 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 |
III. Putting the River to Work In its undeveloped state, the Columbia was the mainstay of a well-developed salmon culture, and the center of a far-flung trading network. Non-Indians, however, wanted to use the river in different ways, and felt themselves constrained by the river's wild variability. The amount of water that reaches the estuary varies a great deal from season to season and year to year. Much of the basin's precipitation is snow, which falls in the mountains from October to... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1237 |
