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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    June 30, 1987 [5] Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.

  3. Bonneville cutthroat trout - Wikipedia

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    The Bonneville cutthroat trout ( Oncorhynchus clarkii utah) is a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to tributaries of the Great Salt Lake and Sevier Lake. [2] Most of the fish's current and historic range is in Utah, but they are also found in Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. This is one of 14 or so recognized subspecies of cutthroat trout native ...

  4. Cowlitz River - Wikipedia

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    Cowlitz River. /  46.65444°N 121.62028°W  / 46.65444; -121.62028. /  46.09778°N 122.91111°W  / 46.09778; -122.91111. The Cowlitz River is a river in the state of Washington in the United States, a tributary of the Columbia River. Its tributaries drain a large region including the slopes of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount ...

  5. Fish ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pool-and-weir fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River Drone video of a fish way in Estonia, on the river Jägala FERC Fish Ladder Safety Sign. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as ...

  6. John Day Dam - Wikipedia

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    The John Day Dam is a concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam spanning the Columbia River in the northwestern United States. [3] The dam features a navigation lock plus fish ladders on both sides. The John Day Lock has the highest lift (at 110 feet or 34 meters) of any U.S. lock. [4] The reservoir impounded by the dam is Lake Umatilla, [5] and it ...

  7. Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia

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    pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin) Etymology. Benjamin Bonneville. Surface area. ~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km 2) (at max. lake level) Max. depth. over 980 ft (300 m) Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.

  8. McNary Dam - Wikipedia

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    Annual generation. 5,170 GWh [1] [2] McNary Dam is a 1.4-mile (2.2-km) long concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam which spans the Columbia River. It joins Umatilla County, Oregon with Benton County, Washington, 292 miles (470 km) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia. [3] It is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ' McNary Lock and Dam ...

  9. 100,000 live salmon spill out of overturned truck in Oregon ...

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    April 4, 2024 at 3:42 PM. A tanker truck overturned in Northeast Oregon on Friday and spilled over 100,000 live salmon — most of which landed in a nearby creek and lived to swim another day ...