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The Hanford Reach National Monument is a national monument in the U.S. state of Washington. It was created in 2000, mostly from the former security buffer surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The area has been untouched by development or agriculture since 1943. For this reason, it is considered an involuntary park.
It is also the site of the Hanford Reach National Monument, created from the original protection area around the Hanford Site. Upstream of the Hanford Reach is Priest Rapids Dam and downstream is the McNary Dam, which also impounds the last stretch of the Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia. The Hanford Reach includes the still ...
The Reach Museum, also known as the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center, is a museum and visitor center for Hanford Reach National Monument located in Richland, Washington. [1] The center tells a story of the cultural, natural, and scientific history of the Hanford Reach and Columbia Basin area, as well as promoting tourism.
Rattlesnake Mountain, which became part of the Hanford Reach National Monument when it was established in 2000, was used as part of a security perimeter around the production portion of the ...
A coyote runs along a ridge adjacent to the road leading to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain on the Hanford Reach National Monument area. The monument covers nearly 200,000 acres of mostly shrub ...
A wildfire that started at the Hanford site late Wednesday morning was 90% contained 24 hours later, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.. It had burned an estimated 570 acres. The fire ...
Section 3081, "Ensuring public access to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach National Monument", [11] of the Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 [12] directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide public access (including motorized access) to the summit of ...
This graph shows the earthquakes that have been detected on the edge of the Hanford Reach National Monument starting Sept. 21. The largest, those with magnitude 2.0 to 3.0 are shown in green.