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100 1 _aHarden, Blaine.
245 1 2 _aA river lost :
_bthe life and death of the Columbia /
_cBlaine Harden.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_c1996.
300 _a271 p. :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.
505 0 _aSlackwater-- Betteroff undewater-- Machine River-- The Biggest thing on earth-- The flood-- Ditches from Heaven-- A noble way to use a river-- Wild and scenic atomic river-- Born with no hips-- Slackwater II-- The river game.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aEconomic development
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zColumbia River Region
650 0 _aEconomic development
_xSocial aspects
_zColumbia River Region
650 0 _aWater resources development
_zColumbia River Region
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEnvironmental degradation
_zColumbia River Region
650 0 _aDesarrollo económico
_xAspectos ambientales
_zRegion Columbia River
650 0 _aDesarrollo económico
_xAspectos Sociales
_zRegion Columbia River
650 0 _aDesarrollo de los recursos hídricos
_zRegion Columbia River
_XHistoria
650 0 _aDegradacion ambiental
_zRegion Columbia River
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