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The Columbia River Levee System History and Future Challenges

2013-06-04 19:58:08| PortlandOnline

Free brownbag talk on June 19th explores changing role of levees in our area.

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Climate emerges as hot issue in Columbia River Treaty talks with Canada

2013-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sacramento Bee: When President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Columbia River Treaty with Canada as one of his last official acts in January of 1961, global warming did not rank as a public concern. Fifty-two years later, it's a far different story: Scientific models predict that rising temperatures will reduce the snowpack and glacier mass in nearby mountains, resulting in less water during seasonal runoffs for the 1,243-mile-long Columbia River, the longest in the Pacific Northwest. The treaty created a massive...

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