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• Title:A river captured : the Columbia River Treaty and catastrophic change / Eileen Delehanty Pearkes.
  
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• Author/Creator:Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty, 1961- author.
  
• Published/Created:[Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Call Number: KDZ642.C65 A3 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: KDZ642.C65 A3 2016
    
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  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: KDZ642.C65 A3 2016
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Water resources development--Law and legislation--Columbia River Watershed.
  Water resources development--Environmental aspects--Columbia River Watershed.
  Water resources development--Social aspects--Columbia River Watershed.
  
• Subject(s):Columbia River Treaty (1961 January 17)
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:288 pages ; 20 cm
  
• Summary:"A River Captured explores the controversial history of the Columbia River Treaty and its impact on the ecosystems, indigenous peoples, contemporary culture, provincial politics and recent history of southeastern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781771601788 paperback
  1771601787 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Preparing the Ground: Key Events Preceding the Columbia River Treaty
  1. Swimming through a River of Sage
  2. Big Water Year
  3. Elections, an Extinction and the Mapping of Graves
  Give and Take: Who Made the CRT Decisions and How
  1. Long Road to Libby
  2. Silence, Exclusion and Controversy
  3. Standoff
  Everything Has a Price, Even Betrayal
  1. Growing Delicious Carrots
  2. End Game
  CRT Hangover
  1. Speed, Efficiency and a Sideways Slip
  2. Taking a Stand, Standing in the Way: The Social Complexity of Forced Removal
  3. Whittled Down to the Bone: The Lost Landscape of the Upper Kootenay River Valley
  Picking Up the Pieces
  1. Reservoir Rye
  2. Opening the Gates
  3. Voice of the Grandmothers.