And the Columbia river dams, the electricity from those allowed the aluminum industry to exist in the northwest.
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Last month's discovery occurred along the Columbia River corridor, Hanford's most sensitive area.
The Willamette flows through farmland and Oregon's major cities from Eugene to its confluence with the Columbia River in Portland.
White Salmon is about 60 miles east of Portland, Oregon, on the north side of the Columbia River, in southernmost Washington state.
Larger than Manhattan, the Columbia River island is a lush agricultural site and nature preserve with countless miles of flat hiking and biking trails.
MW. The Bonneville hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River, near the site of the Oregon windmills, produces a fifth of that all by itself.
They also examined 10 dead California sea lions that had been healthy when they were euthanized to protect fish stocks in the Columbia River.
Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males.
Travel up the Columbia River, which has long supplied this area with cheap electrical power, and you can see and hear what's luring students into the energy field.
Hanford, which the Department of Energy says is the U.S.'s biggest environmental cleanup site both by size and by cost, occupies 586 square miles of desert along the Columbia River.
Google, which uses enormous amounts of energy to power its data centers, locates those parts of the business in areas like Washington's Columbia River hydroelectric grid, where juice is cheap.
Thanks to Hanford's sustained ability to soak up federal dollars, the great recession skipped over Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, fast-growing towns on the Columbia river that call themselves the Tri-Cities.
This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.
According to a Navy Environmental Impact Statement, the reactors will be put on barges, floated up the Columbia River to the site of the former Hanford nuclear production complex where they will be buried in a huge trench near reactors from smaller decommissioned naval warships.
They have seasonal access to wild-caught (better than farmed) King salmon (larger and more desirable than sockeye) from the Columbia River (one of the greatest salmon locales), and the piece I had, cooked on an alder wood plank, was THE best salmon I have ever tasted.
Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.
The Columbia River is punctuated by 14 huge dams that still generate electricity for the millions who live along its watershed, and as the region shifts to other sources of renewable energy, it's giving birth to new giants awe-inspiring structures that will stare down at us for centuries.
The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.
About 75 percent of the Pacific Northwest's electricity used to create and maintain jobs is provided by Columbia and Snake River system dams.
The Columbia and Snake River system allows large volumes of freight to be moved with negligible impact on air quality, and replacing this transportation capacity would require use of 120, 000 rail cars or 700, 000 trucks.
Here pioneers loaded their wagons onto barges and floated down the Columbia and then the Willamette River.
Officials with Scenic Hudson said Davis grew to love the Hudson River while living in Manhattan as a graduate student at Columbia University and later when she and her husband lived in a hilltop home overlooking the river in suburban Tarrytown.
The Hudson Valley tour includes the stone-fenced fields of Columbia and Dutchess counties, and a river cruise and dinner at the Culinary Institute of America.
Historically, the Klamath was the third-most important salmon river in the West, after the Columbia and the Sacramento.
Quackenbush to Columbia Gorge Community College, on the Oregon side of the river.
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