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The Lower Snake and Clearwater Canyons ecoregion consists of deep canyons cut through the basalts of the Columbia Plateau by the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. Canyon depths exceed 1,400 feet (430 m) and create drier conditions than in neighboring regions; mean annual precipitation is only 12 to 25 inches (300 to 640 mm).
The Columbia Plateau is an important geologic and geographic region that lies across parts of the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. [1] It is a wide flood basalt plateau between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains , cut through by the Columbia River .
It also connects east onto the Snake River Plain, which it follows east from Hells Canyon to the continental divide in eastern Idaho. [2] Information about this ecoregion is covered by three articles that follow the ecoregion definitions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency: Columbia Plateau; Snake River Plain; Northern Basin ...
The Snake drains by far the largest area of any Columbia River tributary, making up about 40 percent of the entire Columbia River watershed. [ 30 ] : 602 Compared with the Columbia above their confluence, the Snake River is about 180 miles (290 km) longer [ n 2 ] and drains a similarly sized area, [ 5 ] [ 39 ] though the Columbia carries more ...
The report provides a summary of the historic, ongoing and cumulative harm to eight Columbia Basin tribes caused by 11 dams built in the Columbia and Snake rivers. It marks the first time the ...
Like the Columbia River region, volcanic eruptions dominate the story of the Snake River Plain in the eastern part of the Columbia Plateau Province. The earliest Snake River Plain eruptions began about 15 million years ago, just as the tremendous early eruptions of Columbia River Basalt were ending.
The formation of a new federal task force focused on salmon in the Columbia River system has been met with concern by supporters of the Snake River hydroelectric dams in Eastern Washington.
The Columbia Plateau State Park Trail is a 130-mile-long (210 km), 20-foot-wide (6.1 m) corridor in eastern Washington state maintained as part of the Washington State Park system. The rail trail runs along the abandoned right-of-way of the former Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway .