Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation
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Category : Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation
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Category : Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Publisher:
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Category : Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Bridging a Great Divide
Author: Kathie Durbin
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ISBN: 9780870717161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, setting into motion one of the great land-use experiments of modern times. The act struck a compromise between protection for one of the West's most stunning landscapes--the majestic Gorge carved by Ice Age floods, which today divides Washington and Oregon--and encouragement of compatible economic development in communities on both sides of the river. In Bridging a Great Divide, award-winning environmental journalist Kathie Durbin draws on interviews, correspondence, and extensive research to tell the story of the major shifts in the Gorge since the Act's passage. Sweeping change has altered the Gorge's landscape: upscale tourism and outdoor recreation, gentrification, the end of logging in national forests, the closing of aluminum plants, wind farms, and a population explosion in the metropolitan area to its west. Yet, to the casual observer, the Gorge looks much the same as it did twenty-five years ago. How can we measure the success of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act? In this insightful and revealing history, Durbin suggests that the answer depends on who you are: a small business owner, an environmental watchdog group, a chamber of commerce. The story of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is the story of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm, as the region shifts from a natural-resource-based economy to one based on recreation, technology, and quality of life.
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ISBN: 9780870717161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, setting into motion one of the great land-use experiments of modern times. The act struck a compromise between protection for one of the West's most stunning landscapes--the majestic Gorge carved by Ice Age floods, which today divides Washington and Oregon--and encouragement of compatible economic development in communities on both sides of the river. In Bridging a Great Divide, award-winning environmental journalist Kathie Durbin draws on interviews, correspondence, and extensive research to tell the story of the major shifts in the Gorge since the Act's passage. Sweeping change has altered the Gorge's landscape: upscale tourism and outdoor recreation, gentrification, the end of logging in national forests, the closing of aluminum plants, wind farms, and a population explosion in the metropolitan area to its west. Yet, to the casual observer, the Gorge looks much the same as it did twenty-five years ago. How can we measure the success of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act? In this insightful and revealing history, Durbin suggests that the answer depends on who you are: a small business owner, an environmental watchdog group, a chamber of commerce. The story of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is the story of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm, as the region shifts from a natural-resource-based economy to one based on recreation, technology, and quality of life.
Columbia River Gorge Act of 1986 and Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
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Category : Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Category : Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Columbia River
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Publisher: University of Idaho Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Published in conjunction with the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Columbia River: Gateway to the West makes a significant contribution to the saga of the Pacific Northwest by viewing its main currents in terms of one of the great waterways of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Idaho Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Published in conjunction with the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Columbia River: Gateway to the West makes a significant contribution to the saga of the Pacific Northwest by viewing its main currents in terms of one of the great waterways of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Oversight Hearing on the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Curious Gorge
Author: Scott Cook
Publisher: Scott Cook
ISBN: 0979923204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A hiking and exploring guidebook to Orgeon's Columbia River Gorge. Features day hikes, waterfalls, scenic wonders, and must-see attractions.
Publisher: Scott Cook
ISBN: 0979923204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A hiking and exploring guidebook to Orgeon's Columbia River Gorge. Features day hikes, waterfalls, scenic wonders, and must-see attractions.
To Establish a Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
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Category : Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
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Category : Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
Author: Andy Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996112000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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ISBN: 9780996112000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Voyage of a Summer Sun
Author: Robin Cody
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 9781570610837
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
At the centre of this wonderful book is the great Columbia River-rich with history, myth, and riverfolk, as well as progress and its effects. Cody's canoe trip from the Columbia's Canadian headwaters to where it meets the Pacific Ocean, churns up a lively portrait of the river and the land through which it courses. The Los Angeles Times Book Review praised the hardcover edition with "Voyage is neither an environmental treatise nor a search for [Cody's] own soul. It's about the taming of a river and, from water level, what that taming has meant.....Cody is a clear writer with strong descriptive powers." The hardcover edition was awarded the 1996 PNBA Award.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 9781570610837
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
At the centre of this wonderful book is the great Columbia River-rich with history, myth, and riverfolk, as well as progress and its effects. Cody's canoe trip from the Columbia's Canadian headwaters to where it meets the Pacific Ocean, churns up a lively portrait of the river and the land through which it courses. The Los Angeles Times Book Review praised the hardcover edition with "Voyage is neither an environmental treatise nor a search for [Cody's] own soul. It's about the taming of a river and, from water level, what that taming has meant.....Cody is a clear writer with strong descriptive powers." The hardcover edition was awarded the 1996 PNBA Award.
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description