Columbia River
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Known for its great salmon runs in spring.
The site of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams.
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I screened it at Columbia River and twice at Oregon State Penitentiary—once for the lifers group, once for the Asian Pacific Family Club.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
McBride was seated at the kitchen table of his custom-built home, two miles above the Columbia River in rural Washington state.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026
The towns speckling the Columbia River basin have long ridden the ebbs and flows of far-off markets: volatile crop prices, changes in the livestock trade, pressure on the lumber industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Wilcove describes fish ladders installed on dams in the Columbia River that allowed adult salmon to travel upstream but offered no accommodation for juveniles heading in the opposite direction, leading local populations to collapse.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024
Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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