I was appalled to read your recent puff piece about the Bea-Lang house being constructed in a critical place in my home, the Columbia River Gorge (HCN, 2/15/99). Your supposedly objective article claims “a big house slipped through” protections enacted by Congress in 1986. Nonsense. This monstrosity is not an anomaly but the norm – […]
Chuck Williams
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
The dammed Columbia
The author describes the natural history of the region, and then tells how the river has been reworked to provide kilowatts, acre-feet, a route for barges into Idaho and other goods of the modern age. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E