Record Details
Columbia River Basin
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Columbia River Basin |
| Relation | Columbia River |
| Date | 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11 |
| 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. 768.006 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 | The Columbia River Basin "With a total area of about 220,000 square miles, the United States portion of the basin comprises most of the region known as the Pacific Northwest, and constitutes approximately 7 percent of the total area of the Nation . . . "[Columbia River] waters are used to irrigate an area second in size to that supplied from the Missouri River . . . The Columbia is the largest present producer and the greatest potential source of hydroelectric power on the continent." |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1507 |
