Leashing The Pacific Northwest's Master Stream

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1. Excellent article by Joe Connelly... "Leashing The Northwest's Master Stream"

Joe Connelly 2024

It is a wildly beautiful scene all throughout the Columbia River and the Columbia Basin.
We know because we spent the first eighteen years of our life there.
Attention, though, to paragraph 9 in the article.

… Between Bonneville Dam and the Canadian border, a single 40-mile stretch of undammed river remains, where one side of the Hanford Reach is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the other side holds the largest volume of nuclear waste in North America, the legacy of plutonium production for nuclear weapons production. The river’s largest remaining wild salmon run makes its home in the Hanford Reach…

Between over logging up North, land and water capture, erosion and the shrinking environment along the River, Hanford is a mess.

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