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Columbia-Snake River System: The Breadbasket To Asia

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Columbia-Snake River System: The Breadbasket To Asia

March 27, 2026

From the crest of the Rocky Mountains along the Continental Divide and the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range flows one of North America’s great river systems: the Columbia River… Read More

Snake River Channel Dredging Completed The project dredged about 220,000 cubic yards of material from the channel near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

The project dredged about 220,000 cubic yards of material from the channel near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Snake River Channel Dredging Completed

March 7, 2023

A dredging contractor for the Walla Walla Engineer District has completed channel-deepening dredging at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers near Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho. Read More

Pacific Northwest Rivers Rebounding From Pandemic Dredging operations at Lewiston, Idaho.

Pacific Northwest Rivers Rebounding From Pandemic

June 18, 2021

Long before European settlers arrived on the Columbia and Snake rivers, the waterways were important transportation corridors for the native peoples. When the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled down… Read More