Governor John Kitzhaber casts for consensus in the Northwest’s troubled waters
Carlotta Collette
He fought Oregon’s developers
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. In the summer of 1944, on leave after flying some 30 missions over Germany and occupied Europe, Air Force bombardier Ted Hallock sat down in a New York City café with writer Brendan Gill and talked at some length about his first quarter-century. Gill […]
Judge nixes salmon plan
Oregon’s Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber had high hopes that his plan for saving coastal coho salmon from extinction could stave off listing the fish as endangered, and set an example of stewardship for other Western states. The “Oregon Plan” featured collaboration among private landowners, who own 65 percent of the salmon’s habitat, the local timber […]
A visit with the River People of Hanford Reach
“In time to come the white men will build dams which will close the Columbia River to the salmon. At Priest Rapids, there is nothing the white people want in our little life, and there we may live unmolested.” – Prophecy of Smowhala, founder of the Dreamer Religion of the Wanapum people in the mid-1800s, […]
