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COLUMBIA RIVER HISTORY PROJECT

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  1. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    First humans

    campsite containing charred bones and stone artifacts that was discovered at the site of The Dalles Dam... The Marmes site now is under water behind Lower Monumental Dam.... Because the remains were found in the river within the pool created by McNary Dam, underwater and just... Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the dam and reservoir, took possession of the remains....
  2. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Extinction

    These included Snake River fall Chinook, Snake River spring/summer Chinook, Lower Columbia River Chinook... Endangered Species Act petitions, in fact in a year when 6,895 spring Chinook, 3,934 summer Chinook, 449 fall... Historically, coho were abundant in the lower Snake River Basin and provided important late-summer and fall... Harpster Dam was removed in 1963 and the Water Power dam in 1972, but the damage was done.... Willa Nehlsen, then a biologist on the Council staff, made a presentation at a Council meeting in Post Falls...
  3. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Epidemics

    The mosquito’s territory did not extend much beyond Celilo Falls , and so interior Columbia Basin tribes...
  4. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Energy efficiency

    With the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and its major tributaries from the 1930s...
  5. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Energy deregulation

    While water can be stored behind dams for future hydropower use, only one-third of the annual runoff... condition, which is the lowest recorded level of river flow in the Columbia, measured at The Dalles Dam... shortage to river flow requirements in the 1995 and 1998 biological opinions on Snake and Columbia dam... least 12 new plants totaling more than 4,000 megawatts in the Northwest but only one, near Klamath Falls... In fact, wholesale prices did not fall back to normal levels until June of 2001....
  6. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Energy crisis of 2000/2001

    developed over a period of about five years, largely unnoticed, and then burst upon the Northwest in the fall... ability to import power from the Southwest in the winter and to draft reservoirs behind hydropower dams... In response to increasing wholesale power prices, demand for electricity in the region began falling... Bypass spill (running water over a dam’s spillways instead of through the turbines) is intended to reduce... Market prices will fall again, and the “wrong” economic signal again will be sent to power plant developers...
  7. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Endangered Species Act, Columbia River salmon and steelhead, and the Biological Opinion

    That same year; the naturally spawning Snake River fall Chinook run was estimated at just 404 fish—actually... Two months later, petitions to list Snake River spring, summer and fall Chinook as threatened species... salmon and steelhead listings totaled 12, including: Snake River Sockeye, November 1991 Snake River fall... consider the AMIP as part of the 2008 Biop — he clearly indicated he would like to — or whether it falls... The EIS evaluated four alternatives to help lower Snake River fall Chinook pass the dams: 1) the existing...
  8. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Dry Falls

    Dry Falls During the last ice age, between 12,800 and 15,000 years ago, a glacier moved down the present-day... The river rose behind the ice dam, eventually spilled over the lowest point in its south canyon wall... Here the river tumbled over a precipice higher than Niagara Falls and with a volume of water many times... When the ice dam receded north up the Okanagon canyon, the Columbia returned to its pre-ice dam channel... Dry Falls State Park is a popular camping, hiking and fishing area. Photo: Kathleen Pasieka....
  9. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    David Douglas

    Bay Company, where he had his gun repaired, and also Fort Colville, the Hudson’s Bay Post near Kettle Falls...
  10. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Direct-service industries

    Bonneville Power Administration sells the electricity output of the Federal Columbia River Power System — 31 dams... After Bonneville Dam was completed in 1938, and as more dams were added to the Columbia River power system... Requirements to spill water over dams to aid fish passage reduced the amount of power the system could...
  11. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Dams: impacts on salmon and steelhead

    Hells Canyon of the Snake River, for example, wiped out historically productive spawning habitat for fall... In the Hanford Reach of the Columbia, the most productive, and natural, fall Chinook spawning habitat... Falls Dam (completed in 1911, also without fish passage facilities), effectively ending salmon and steelhead... Typically, Francis turbines are used at dams where the head — the distance the water falls to the turbine... either design, the upstream entrance to the turbine pit is higher than the downstream exit, and so water falls...
  12. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Dams: history and purpose

    to license water power dams on navigable rivers.... Army expanded the plan to 10 dams.... It was the first dam on the mainstem Columbia River, and it was not a multiple-purpose dam.... Many more dams were finished later, but they were smaller.... Hells Canyon Dam to Ice Harbor Dam....
  13. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Dams and power plants

    Dams and power plants From the late 1800s, when the first hydropower turbines were installed on Columbia... River tributaries, into the 1960s water power from dams in the Columbia River Basin provided most of... population increased and the regional economy grew, demand for electricity surpassed the output of the dams... the region’s hydropower is generated on the Columbia River and its tributaries, but there also are dams...
  14. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

    for salmon fisheries in the Indian-only fishing zone of the Columbia between Bonneville and McNary dams...
  15. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System

    The key issue, in fact one that had been around since construction of Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams... public or private and who would control the generation, sale and transmission of power from federal dams...
  16. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Commercial fishing

    This shift hurt upriver canneries, which relied more heavily on fall-run fish, the magazine reported.... Observers had noted that until 1878 the salmon runs at Kettle Falls had been prolific, but that the runs... I fished many seasons — early fall, late fall, bluebacks, spring.... By 1889, there were 57 fish wheels operating between Bonneville and Celilo Falls.... By 1900 there were five canneries and 76 fish wheels operating in the 50 miles between the falls of the...
  17. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia Wetlands

    Columbia Wetlands The only free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River — that is, not affected by dam... Columbia, from the headwaters at Columbia Lake to Donald at the head of Kinbasket Reservoir behind Mica Dam... In the fall, more than 15,000 waterfowl have been counted in a single day migrating through the wetlands...
  18. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Treaty

    All four dams were built.... Duncan Dam, at the northern end of Kootenay Lake, was completed in 1967; Keenleyside Dam, just north... British Columbia got three dams, large power benefits from the treaty dams and at Canadian dams downstream... These funds were used to build Duncan and Keenleyside dams and partially fund construction of Mica Dam... The issue today is not whether to build dams....
  19. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Highway

    beautiful waterfalls including Latourell, Coopey, Mist, Wahkeena, Multnomah, Oneonta and Horsetail falls... Notable among these trails is the five-mile stretch between Bonneville Dam and Cascade Locks, and another...
  20. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Gorge

    He advised against industrial development in the Gorge near Bonneville Dam, consistent with his belief... belongings and wagons to barges at The Dalles for the trip to Oregon City, but had to portage past the falls... Bonneville Dam is five miles west of Cascade Locks at the western end of the Gorge, and The Dalles Dam...
  21. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Interstate Compact

    purpose the river is divided into five fishing zones between the mouth of the river and Bonneville Dam... A separate fishing zone, Zone 6, is designated between Bonneville and McNary dams, a distance of 147...
  22. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River: Description, Creation, and Discovery

    150 miles (241 kilometers) in the United States, the Columbia forms the reservoir behind Grand Coulee Dam... with Mica at river mile 1,018, and more than 450 dams throughout the basin.... While the sisters were away, he destroyed the dam, again freeing the way for salmon.... The rocks of Celilo Falls were the remnants of the dam. Thus we have the Columbia River and salmon.... had now changed from its natural, to river-coloured water; the probable consequences of some streams falling...
  23. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia Lake

    numbers, cut and mutilated, after their long watery pilgrimage among the rapids, cataracts, valleys and falls... Grand Coulee Dam ended the salmon runs to the headwaters....
  24. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia Basin Project

    Water from Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam is pumped uphill to a 27-mile-long reservoir, Banks... soil of the plateau, but with annual rainfall averaging less than 20 inches, and with most of that falling... A dam that would provide water to the plateau by diverting the Columbia into the Grand Coulee had been... Such a dam was one of at least 10 the Army envisioned in its report, and irrigation promoters seized... and is impounded by Pinto Dam....
  25. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Climate and climate change

    Dams altered this flow regime by catching and holding water in reservoirs for winter power generation... In July 2015, for example, more than a quarter million adult sockeye that were counted at Bonneville Dam... as they returned from the ocean to spawn were not counted at McNary Dam 146 miles upriver.... implementation of projects to protect and enhance fish and wildlife populations affected by hydropower dams... Reviewing regional and electricity data for 2018, the Council’s power planning staff reported in the fall...
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