Record Details
page 55
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 55 |
| 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. 188.884 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 | Throughout much of the Basin, the greatest change in land patterns came from the expansion of agriculture.' Irrigation diversions in the 19th century often blocked migrating salmon. Diversions usually lacked screens to keep juvenile fish from being diverted onto fields; irrigation return flows warmed streams and loaded them with silt.' Even before federal reclamation development, the Basin's salmon rivers were degraded. In 1893, the Yakima River's temperature reached 60 degrees in the summer.... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1273 |
