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HistoryLink.org By Phil Dougherty The Dalles Lock and Dam (The Dalles Dam) is one of the 10 largest producers of hydroelectric power in the United States. Since its first generator went online in 1957, the dam has produced more than 9.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. Today [2021], its 22 generators in its 2,089-foot-long powerhouse produce enough electricity to power 800,000 homes. The dam is the second of eight on the Columbia-Snake Inland Waterway, a 465-mile river highway that allows barge transport of cargo between the Pacific Ocean and Lewiston, Idaho. Located east of The Dalles,...

A living document speaks to living waters “The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good,” an international pastoral letter by the Catholic bishops of the Northwest, celebrates its 20th anniversary About 40% of all wheat produced in the United States is shipped in barges, pushed by tugboats, on the Columbia River to Portland, Vancouver, Kelso and Longview. It would take more than 500 trucks to transport the wheat a barge carries. Yet the dams that make the water route possible have devastated salmon runs on the Columbia. The Yakama people,...

Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted important harvests; now, COVID is making it even harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. *This story originally appeared on Underscore.news

In this file photo from Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, Melvin Sampson points to the logo of the Melvin R. Sampson Coho Facility after unveiling it at an open house in Ellensburg, Wash. The logo is the same as the brand Sampson used to use for his cattle when he was a cattleman. Evan Abell / Yakima Herald-Republic, file