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Upper Columbia River Region Maps

Nerding out about dams

March 13, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

He was smart, deeply interested in the ecological impact of dams, and understood immediately the national importance of the columbia River Treaty.

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Winter Drought

February 16, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

For a while now, I have been following a remarkable turn of events in the upper Columbia River region. The Columbia River Treaty (CRT) is an international agreement between the US and Canada, for flood control and enhanced hydroelectricity. The CRT was entirely designed to provide spring storage of winter snowmelt, so that summer and […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Maps Tagged With: Columbia River Treaty

Ground breaking US government support of Salmon

September 21, 2023 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration and Dept. of the Interior announced an historic agreement to support the reintroduction of ocean salmon to the upper Columbia River, including $200 million over 20 years, and another $8 million over two. This support of the tribal people and the fish central to their cultural lives comes at a critical […]

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Nothing that is big or grand starts out that way

May 20, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 12 Comments

In the past month, I have twice threaded my way east through the Selkirk and Purcell mountains to travel across the mysterious landscape of river-beginnings. In the Rocky Mountain Trench, the Kootenay River starts on the West Slope of the Rockies, tumbling down to wind along the broad valley. Here, too, begins the great Columbia […]

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Upper Columbia Region – imagined

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  This is my own map of the region where I live – without roads, borders, cities, towns or other features. Imagined landscape!

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Saffron Peak in Purcell Range

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  I was reading The Purcell Range of B.C. by Mr. Thorington and came across his marvelous description of Saffron Peak and the river flowing out of that yellow mountain.  Maps.  Exploring.  Choices about which way to go.  All of these prompted my journal to explode with possibilities…..

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About Eileen

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

Recent Posts

  • 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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