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008			950818s1996 nyub b 001 0 eng
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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, _c1996
300			_a271 p. : _bmaps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index
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
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999			_c1931 _d1931