| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4

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Empty Nets: Indians, Dams and the Columbia River. By Roberta Ulrich. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. vii + 248 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper $19.95.

Historians of the American West know well the saga of the conversion of the Columbia River beginning with construction of the Bonneville Dam, completed in 1938. A project of the New Deal's Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission, Bonneville would be the first of a series of high dams in the Columbia basin that would include eventually Grand Coulee and four others in Oregon and Washington, three on the upper Columbia in Canada, and three on the Snake River, creating what Richard White called aptly the "Organic Machine." Completion of the Dalles Dam in the Columbia River Gorge in 1957 flooded the rapids complex known as Celilo Falls, drowning the most famous Indian fishing site on the river. Today the Columbia is an environmentally degraded, fiercely contested, artificially maintained water supply nurturing a diverse and complex economic engine.

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