The Dam Builders

by Bill Gulick

The years between 1949 and 1975 were dam-building years along the Pacific Northwest's Columbia and Snake Rivers. During those twenty-five years the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, and private entities such as Pacific Power, Portland General Electric, and the Idaho Power Company turned the previously free-flowing rivers into a series of quiet lakes. Just as a great river influences the lives of the people in its watershed, so do the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826334865
• ISBN13: 9780826334862
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"