Seattle, WA (Grist) — The move threatens treaty rights and salmon recovery as energy demands from AI and crypto surge.

One side note – the Columbia River Basin is jointly managed by the United States and Canada through a treaty that expires next year and is currently being renegotiated with the Canadian ...

For 60 years, the Columbia River Treaty has guided how Canada and the United States operate dams along the international river for both power production and flood control.

Then, the 1948 Vanport disaster accelerated regional and international discussions on how to control unruly rivers, spurring the signing of the Columbia River Treaty, which went into effect in 1964.

In 2017, DNA testing revealed that the remains of the Ancient One were some 8,500 years old, and he had a direct ancestral connection to Indigenous people of the Columbia, specifically to the ...

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes is a writer who explores landscape and the human imagination, with a focus on the history of the upper Columbia River and its tributaries. Born in the United States ...

Nearly 300,000 acres had been designated along some 85 miles of the Columbia River Gorge — making it the largest National Scenic Area in the United States. The Legacy ...

A steamboat cruise on the Columbia and Snake rivers traces the trek of Lewis and Clark, explores Native American history and wows with scenic beauty.

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States. Negotiations of a 60-year-old treaty between ...