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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 […]

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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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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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Coming Together in Portland

June 19, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

How will a new Columbia River Treaty flood control agreement find balance between American and Canadian interests?

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The path of Mt. Rainier’s Snow

June 13, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Touring Big River since June 1 has brought me into the sights of Mt. Rainier. On clear days, this pinnacle rises high above the Seattle skyline and busy port. I’ve been lucky enough to see it often during my time here. Most of the snow on Mt. Rainier descends to the ocean. The snow on […]

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About Eileen

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

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  • 600-Strong: whoever would have thought?
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