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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains.
Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed without gargantuan irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams - including Grand Coulee - and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, who had thought of themselves as patriots, stood accused of killing the river.
As Blaine Harden traveled the thousand miles of the Columbia - by barge, by car, and sometimes on foot - his own past seemed both foreign and familiar. He met rugged individualists (albeit with government subsidies), fervent environmentalists, and Native Americans reduced to consuming canned salmon. He also encountered a newly ascendant political force whose more subtle agenda was to preserve and conserve for its own pleasure and recreation.
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Columbia River Region, Economic development, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Economic development, Environmental degradation, History, Social aspects, Social aspects of Economic development, Water resources development, Wasserkraft, Umweltschaden, Nutzung, Natürliche Ressourcen, Umweltveränderung, Economic development, environmental aspects, Economic development, social aspects, Columbia river and valley, Grand coulee dam (wash.), DamsPlaces
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River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393342565 9780393342567
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River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393344525 9780393344523
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
November 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
0393316904 9780393316902
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
November 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
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A river lost: the life and death of the Columbia
1996, W.W. Norton
in English
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0393039366 9780393039368
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A riverlost: the life and death of the Columbia
1996, W.W. Norton
in English
0393039366 9780393039368
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.
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