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Columbia River Treaty

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

Full Flowering and the Columbia River Treaty

June 10, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

The last time my life was as busy as it has been this spring was the year my second son came into the world. That sunny, damp day in mid-March 26 years ago set off a whirl of caregiving for family that only began to abate in 2002, when my first book emerged in the […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Upper Columbia River Region, Water Tagged With: A River Captured, Columbia River Treaty

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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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