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
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
Their water stays there — although every few years someone voices a crackpot idea about California importing water from the Columbia River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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
He crossed the Columbia River on a narrow steel span and climbed out of the river’s gorge to the gently rolling wheat fields of the Columbia Plateau.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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