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While the horse evolved in North America, it became extinct between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. [3] There are multiple theories for this extinction, ranging from climate change to the arrival of humans. [4] [5] [6] Horses returned to the Americas beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1493. They also arrived on the mainland with Cortés in 1519.
Hells Canyon Dam, Snake River Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho Coho Spawning on the Salmon River. The Columbia Basin Initiative is a 2023 agreement between the U.S. government, four sovereign Native American Tribes (Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla) and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon to provide over $1 billion in funds for salmon restoration and clean energy production. [1]
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest.BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power.
Dec. 5—CASHMERE — The Columbia Basin Project is making gradual progress toward completion with significant accomplishments for the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program and other milestones ...
Jul. 27—When driving down Columbia Basin Highway after a 220-acre wildfire, some homes appear to still be standing among the charred, still-smoldering ground. Others were lost. Three homes and ...
[45] [h] By 1730, they reached the Columbia Basin and were east of the Continental divide in the northern Great Plains. [35] The Blackfeet people of Alberta had horses by 1750. [46] The Nez Perce people in particular became master horse breeders, and developed one of the first distinctly American breeds, the Appaloosa.
The Horse Heaven Hills are noted in their journal entry on October 16 as "a range of high Countrey which runs from S. W & N E and is on the opposite Side about 2 miles distant from the Columbia". [19] In the following days, the expedition continued down the Columbia River as it goes around the Horse Heaven Hills through Wallula Gap. [20]
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