Western Waters Digital Library
The Columbia River Basin in Oregon

Background Information on the Columbia River Basin

Publications About the Columbia River Basin

• A Changing Columbia Basin : 1770 - present / Oregon State University, ORESU-G-98-007
• Columbia River article / Written by: William L. Lang Professor of History Portland State University, Director, Center for Columbia River History
• The Columbia River System Inside Story / 2nd ed., Federal Columbia River Power System, 2001 (PDF: 80 p.)
• Eastside Draft Environmental Impact Statement : Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  / BLM-OR-WA-PL-96-037+1792, May 1997
  • Glossary (PDF: 26 p.)
• Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, Final Environmental Impact Statement / Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, December 2000 (PDF: 6 p.)
• International Management in the Columbia River System / Keith W. Muckleston, UNESCO/IHP/WWAP, 2003 (PDF: 55 p.)
• Washington (State) Community, Trade and Economic Development's 1997 Biennial Energy Report, App. F (Glossary)
  

Web Sites Focusing on the Columbia River Basin

• Center for Columbia River History
• Columbia River Websites (collected by Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington)
• National Geographic's Columbia River Virtual World
• ODOT's Historic Columbia River Highway Maps
• Roll on Columbia : Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration
• USGS Columbia River Drainage - Columbia River Gorge Homepage (including links to maps)