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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Challenging conversations: a unique Stanford symposium on the Columbia River

May 12, 2025 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 5 Comments

Last week, Americans and Canadians gathered at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to discuss the Columbia River Treaty, its proposed agreement in principle, and the uncertain future of the watershed’s cooperative management. For me, it was a trip back to the undergraduate university where I first learned how to think independently and write well. […]

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600-Strong: whoever would have thought?

March 26, 2025 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 3 Comments

On Tuesday, March 25, the Columbia River Treaty negotiating team and associated politicians held a webinar about the status of the 2024 Agreement in Principle (AIP), which might also be termed the Agreement in Limbo….Since the imagined faucet comment, made by a certain US politician (see my November post), and since the tariff conflicts between […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Canadian Tariffs, Columbia River Treaty, Salmon

Hockey and gravity

March 10, 2025 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

This morning, major U.S. news outlets led with a story about Mark Carney winning his bid for the leadership of the Canadian Liberal Party, replacing Justin Trudeau and his sunny ways. Storm clouds have been on the horizon between the two countries for a while now. The wind is picking up. In his acceptance speech, […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Upper Columbia River Region, Water Tagged With: Canada, Columbia River, Mark Carney

Salmon and Columbia River Treaty flood control

December 19, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

If you haven’t listened to Wide Open, an audio series about the 1973 US Endangered Species Act by Montana journalist Nick Mott, it’s worth a listen. His episode about the Tennessee Valley Authority and the small fish that almost stopped a dam being completed made me think of the Columbia River salmon populations. Before dams, […]

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Flexible Concrete and the Imagined Valve

November 9, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 4 Comments

I was contacted recently by a reporter from Canada’s national newspaper, about a comment president-elect Donald Trump made during the campaign. Paraphrasing here: if the US needs water, there is a valve that can be turned. Water from Canada can come down here where it’s needed. For those of you wondering….there is no valve. Back […]

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Columbia River Treaty Agreement-in-Principle!

July 12, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Indigenous people will have input on management of what the tribes have long referred to as “one river.” There is no legal muscle here. Just a different set of values in the mix. A foot in the door, opening out into a more compassionate home for fish and other voiceless residents of the basin?

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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  • Challenging conversations: a unique Stanford symposium on the Columbia River
  • 600-Strong: whoever would have thought?
  • Hockey and gravity
  • Salmon and Columbia River Treaty flood control
  • Flexible Concrete and the Imagined Valve

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