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Saving the Willamette: A History of Oregon's Heartland River

Saving the Willamette: A History of Oregon's Heartland River

Paperback

Regional: Pacific Northwest

ISBN13: 9798613675111
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 24 2020
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
This is the story of the Willamette River from its birth to the 21st century. Confined in the Willamette Basin, the river has been a way of life for valley inhabitants. From early Native Americans to modern man the river has been a vital source of nourishment, floods, steamboats, agriculture, pollution, conservation, and recreation. In the mid-20th century pollution reigned. Governors McCall and Straub fought for a clean river, and the Willamette Greenway-a strip of land 150 feet wide on both banks of the Willamette from Eugene to Portland. Farmers fought that plan which resulted in a 1970s compromise. That solution still exists today.

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