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@briane173 Жыл бұрын
Amazing to see the Columbia before The Dalles Dam was built, before the Astoria-Megler Bridge was built, before the breakwaters at the Columbia Bar were built. If you've lived here all your life since these structures were put in place you can't imagine what it was like before they existed - it's as if they were always there. As a collective public-works project, the Columbia River dams and estuary are an engineering marvel.
@denmorin3 жыл бұрын
An era of factual documentary and journalism with little to no agenda aside from educating and earning a paycheck.
@desert.mantis3 жыл бұрын
Sorry Dan. This is a government propaganda film like all the others produced in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. What about the plentiful salmon runs that were obliterated by the Grand Coulee and other dams? Native Americans lost their traditional cultural and fishing sites, and even European settlers had to relocate their communities (e.g., Boardman, Arlington). I guess that's just the cost of doing business - that is, making $$.
@daffyduck99013 жыл бұрын
@@desert.mantis just another whining liberal
@hughdunbar98233 жыл бұрын
@@daffyduck9901 Dude that's a conservative victim if I ever heard one. Who the fuck is whining about the media bias all the time? Fuck you Troll.
@hughdunbar98233 жыл бұрын
@@daffyduck9901 You wish closet case.
@heyman55253 жыл бұрын
@@desert.mantisthere have been some serious and regrettable mistakes concerning the salmon and Native American stuff...but European settlers? 😂 This video is from 1947 not 1820.
@ktothec243 жыл бұрын
This was made before the Astoria bridge was built . Crazy to think of a time before then
@1houndgal2 жыл бұрын
The Columbia Gorge was there long before most of human kind was there. So many millions of years. The Astoria bridge is infinitely younger structure before the Gorge Ever formed. Please look into the fascinating geology and geography of this fascinating area. It truly is amazing.
@anterabeltran59904 жыл бұрын
I love these old documentaries.
@mathiasniemeier43593 жыл бұрын
I also enjoy watching what was, and knowing how MAN DESTROYS ..GODS BEAUTIFUL EARTH. I AM OLD NOW. I HAVE LIVED NEAR THE RIVER MY WHOLE LIFE. I CRY SOMETIMES, REMBERING, WHEN ..my brother and I went fishing, swimming and you could still, DRINK THE WATER.! NOW I TRY TO tell MY children, grandchildren and great grandchildren about how LIFE WAS worth Living. Maybe I I AM just getting tried. GOD BLESS YOU. SHALOM P.S., there were a few BAD things that happened as well . Like the terrible discrimination against the INDIANS. That truly was SAD. GOD BLESS IN Jesus.
@oh_knee71732 жыл бұрын
If I was in school and they made me watch this I would hate it but I’m high as fuck in my bedroom and it’s awesome
@daphnekivinen948211 ай бұрын
This is a great video. I was born in Vancouver, WA in 1947. My uncles worked at the fish canneries at Ellsworth on the Columbia River.
@tackyman20114 жыл бұрын
Love how they only filmed on sunny, calm days. Northwesterners know what I'm talking about.
@catus693 жыл бұрын
Yeah its always cloudy up here
@catus693 жыл бұрын
And windy
@8ballgaming7323 жыл бұрын
Northeast over here chillin in the sunny days as usual lol
@8ballgaming7323 жыл бұрын
And we still make wheaf
@phillipmoore62493 жыл бұрын
In Wenatchee it’s sunny 300+ days a year on average
@johncholmes6433 жыл бұрын
Chief Joseph, Wanapum, Rock island, John Day, The Dalles dam Mcnary, Rocky reach, Priest Rapids, Are all the dams that have been built since. You can only see whitewater and fast water at the dam spillway nowadays.
@PunaSquirrel3 жыл бұрын
Opening in 1933, Rock Island was the first dam to span the Columbia River.
@connorthompson40302 жыл бұрын
I know it's sad.
@mikehill37642 ай бұрын
I’ve worked on many rivers across the country. The Columbia was the most beautiful.
@PaulM_aka_4c213 жыл бұрын
Visited Bonneville Dam and Portland in the 90’s, would love to visit again from the UK.
@drscopeify Жыл бұрын
Great video, the Columbia Gorge itself is always an awesome sight on a clear day, you can see for many miles downstream at the right vantage point and hundreds of feet down. I was just crossing on the 82 and saw a barge going under the bridge, always something to feast your eyes on!
@briane173 Жыл бұрын
The geological story of the river and its basin is nothing short of spellbinding. The entire PNW in fact. I can't begin to list them all but the scale of geomorphology in this area is almost impossible to wrap your head around.
@scottrobbins62163 жыл бұрын
The Columbia is massive and powerful…
@verbotn3 жыл бұрын
The river starts at Columbia Lake by Fairmont Hot Springs in British Columbia, its such a humble little river at its origin. Initially it flows north prior to taking its southerly course. The narrator sounds like it was probably Mike Wallace, who was on 60 Minutes for so long
@hughdunbar98233 жыл бұрын
a friend of mine paddled the entire river from Fairmont to the ocean. It took months. Here's a link www.clairedibble.com/watershed
@henryashbridge31413 жыл бұрын
i love living next to the mighty columbia
@squamishfish3 жыл бұрын
The difference between the Columbia and the Fraser river is no dams were put on the Fraser do the Sturgeon and Salmon species in the Fraser are much more stable
@damonkupper56882 ай бұрын
As a local tour guide with PEAK Tours. It’s a beautiful glimpse into the area and the era of film’s production. Explore
@American11B Жыл бұрын
6:18 the building to the top right on the rock face is the Vista House at Crown Point. The footage was taken at Woman’s Forum. Down below at the river is Rooster Rock State Park.
@williamlloyd37692 ай бұрын
Fondly recall flying into Portland and driving up the Columbia River gorge to watch USC play Washington State on a Friday night and then driving back through Portland Saturday to catch an Oregon State game that evening. PAC12 doubleheader of sorts
@mountainman52923 жыл бұрын
The guy counting fish - now he has a good job!
@bryonhills61723 жыл бұрын
The big curve was caused by lava flow.
@jjkaiser19543 жыл бұрын
Is it part of the Columbia basalt plateau?
@bryonhills61723 жыл бұрын
@@jjkaiser1954 yes. The lava is up to 5 miles deep in some areas.
@sergeant_salty2 жыл бұрын
Roll on, Columbia🌊🌊🌊
@DM-hw4cr3 жыл бұрын
The days before the salmon population dropped
@Camelfacekamala3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, these days it’s more like “the days before the salmon where contaminated by nuclear radiation and waste”
@uhadme3 жыл бұрын
restricted us from fishing... and allowed commercial fishermen permits to fish it out. now we pay for fish hatchery and stock nature artificially.. or there would be nothing.
@100ghillie3 жыл бұрын
@@uhadme really is a tragedy...
@PhotographybyTimWMoore3 жыл бұрын
Grand Coulee destroyed millions of salmon
@PhotographybyTimWMoore3 жыл бұрын
Before the dams, millions of salmon migrated up the river to spawn
@PunaSquirrel Жыл бұрын
Roll on Columbia🤙🏼
@mikemarley23899 ай бұрын
I remember seeing 8ft salmon going up the ladders at The Dalles dam in the 70s.My friend had his arm broke trying to tag a three ft salmon.
@diane89373 ай бұрын
Pretty sure your 8 footer was sturgeon, not salmon.
@davidsandall2 ай бұрын
These two dams were major reasons we were able to win WW11. The electricity they produced made it possible for US to make military planes and vehicles much faster than other countries.
@JoseFernandez-qt8hm3 жыл бұрын
Nothing about the Hanford nuclear processing plants.....
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
What about em? It was probably still secret when this came out. I grew up around that area in the 90's and the secrets were still surfacing even then.
@mochiebellina81903 жыл бұрын
secret
@spiritualservicesgodbless76412 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video.
@vickikent472311 ай бұрын
Odd that there is no mention of the first dam built on the Columbia River which is still working hard to this day. One of the tug boat in this film is on display at the Port of Morrow in Boardman OR.
@mrcharliepants3 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time, yes... we actually had salmon! First Americans still fished at the now submerged Celilo Falls; and - there were real trees! ... not the pecker poles we see today, that went downriver to be milled in the Pacific NW, and were not exported to the highest bidder by greedy corporations. And oh how marvelous those fish ladders have worked! The Pacific NW could never run out of salmon, or trees, or water!
@twostop68953 жыл бұрын
yep old growth forest clearing in British Columbia Canada is making southern forest Caribou disappear
@earthlingjohn2 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid in the late '50s~early '60s watching log rafts passing down the Willamette through Portland
@zenobiaw8312 жыл бұрын
And this was the beginning of the end of the beautiful and great Columbia River.
@kimketchmark49916 ай бұрын
My grandfather help build the Bonneville dam 1938.
@juliecramer77684 жыл бұрын
Very interesting!
@archie347343 жыл бұрын
Mike Wallace narrating.
@bill3641Ай бұрын
Who narrated this film? , he sounds very familiar.
@bradybenton67Ай бұрын
Hello from Robson BC🇨🇦right on the Columbia river , just below THE HI ARROW DAM
@onebridge72312 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, 1947 before Portland became the dumpster fire that it is today!
@kylealexander702410 ай бұрын
Meanwhile ur house is an RV
@MatanuskaHIGH3 жыл бұрын
Grand coulie killed the largest salmon in the world. June hogs. 100+ lb chinook salmon. Entire gravel beds of spawning habitat.
@mayamachine3 жыл бұрын
Now the proof is in, chemicals in car tires is killing the salmon, no one doing anything about it.
@leebarnes6553 жыл бұрын
Giant salmon- large enough to feed 100 people- accidentally discovered in in Tasman district kzbin.info/www/bejne/eom9cqyBhZt0baM Meanwhile the klamath run dies at near 100% today kzbin.info/www/bejne/jX_CeWl4arSfeZo
@MatanuskaHIGH3 жыл бұрын
Lee Barnes yeah those salmon aren’t that big. Some bullshit
@jaykay85703 жыл бұрын
@@MatanuskaHIGH Fool. You've never caught a salmon, or even gotten laid. Yet you know so much.
@MatanuskaHIGH3 жыл бұрын
I’m going dipnetting kenai river next week. Google it.
@cold02rex3 жыл бұрын
Fucked it all up.
@Pterodactyl-kn3ve2 ай бұрын
You’re welcome for the recreation, food and lowest kWh electricity in the country.
@robertrogers73318 ай бұрын
Mike Wallace for sure
@johnpage61742 ай бұрын
Sounds like Mike Wallace was the narrator
@googoo-gjoob3 жыл бұрын
3:47 what is the name of these falls? i cant make out what hes saying. id like to read about it.
@leebarnes6553 жыл бұрын
I doubt he would understand it either, makes it sound like there is an N in the word but there isn't. The canal shown at 3:09 is under the water of the Dalles dam and also the Indian fishing spots. Celilo Falls and Celilo Canal underwater in 1957 where this film was made ten years before. I'm guessing he was reading it from a paper gone thru a filthy typewriter of those days and it's pronounced sea lie low. Say lil oh?
@s.a.charles2713 жыл бұрын
Celilo Falls
@googoo-gjoob3 жыл бұрын
@@leebarnes655 , thank you.... no wonder i couldnt locate it.
@davidmihevc39903 жыл бұрын
At least he pronounced Willamette right.
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
I grew up fishing this area and never could find a drop-off on the depth finder. I'm pretty certain that celilo is completely silted in at this point.
@mrbeaverstate3 жыл бұрын
1 year later the Vanport flood.
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ไม้ แร่ หิน ได้เท่านั้น
@M70ACARRY3 жыл бұрын
Is the salmon safe to eat nowadays?
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
If you look in the WA fishing regs you'll see that none of the native fish on the Columbia are safe to eat. You'd probably be fine if they detoxed in the Pacific.
@M70ACARRY3 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwcoleman250 sad! I figured as much.
@CODENAMEDERPY3 жыл бұрын
@@M70ACARRY They are actually pretty safe to eat if the fish itself doesn't show signs of sickness. We've caught and eaten many over decades and we've had no health problems. (we always cook them but I don't think it would change the problem)
@eddymcadams94383 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't count on that
@bman7782 жыл бұрын
it was really built to powr hanford
@berthelman15044 жыл бұрын
the greatest--Swimbait1
@juliecramer77684 жыл бұрын
Whenever the narrator says Portland I think of riots
@TooDeepItHurts3 жыл бұрын
Funny how much the media controls what you see. I live in Portland. What riots?! 😂😂😂
@juliecramer77683 жыл бұрын
@@TooDeepItHurts Oh, I guess it’s a small portion of Portland.
@susanfaber25953 жыл бұрын
All I can think of no fish to feed the people due to the dam dams
@AuRowe3 жыл бұрын
@@susanfaber2595 For me its this and the riots but ye sad times
@drewwolf25913 жыл бұрын
@@susanfaber2595 damn dams?
@eleanormattice35983 жыл бұрын
Remove the lower 4 Snake river dams that keep endangered salmon from reaching prime habitat in the Snake watershed. The dams are expensive and antiquated. We have new ways of transportation and energy manufacturing. Save the salmon!
@sawatisbillings87593 жыл бұрын
AGREED! totally
@elroyeolsonjr87293 жыл бұрын
Funny how you talk jiberish about taking out dams with fish ladders but don't say anything about taking out the ones without fish ladders
@davefransen50963 жыл бұрын
Every town along the river would flood out. The whole town of The Dalles would flood before the Dam was put in.
@eleanormattice35983 жыл бұрын
@@davefransen5096 THis is Eleanor Mattice. Yes, rivers flood ... that's how water is cleaned is soaking down through the soil in a floodplain. We should be ready for floods anyway. The flooding will affect many areas all over the world. Look at Europe at this time!
@elconquistadorism2 жыл бұрын
👍👍🤘🤘
@swimbait16 жыл бұрын
A once great river mostly destroyed
@juliecramer77684 жыл бұрын
Nah
@gregoryreese84913 жыл бұрын
It’s a trade off, absolutely. But I doubt most human’s in the area would be willing to forgo electricity, so what are the choices? Coal powered generation is, IMO, far worse, not just from the CO2 created by burning, but all the consequences from mining. Nuclear? The prospect of a single disaster, even once in a thousand years, one which which would result in thousands of square miles of area rendered unfit for habitation for millennia, a far as I can see makes it, the worst possible choice. So now what? Solar and wind (wind of course has proven to pose some danger to birdlife) both combined can't, given the current state of technology, provide but a small fraction of what we now use. Perhaps fifty or a hundred years into the future, assuming people are still around, we’ll have found the perfect solution, I’m guessing geothermal will figure into it; but for now, can you suggest a preferable alternative to hydroelectric generation?
@carey_metv3 жыл бұрын
@@juliecramer7768 it is destroyed there used to be 100 pound + chinook salmon. Because of the dams that gene pool is long gone.
@AuRowe3 жыл бұрын
@@carey_metv sad :(
@atomicwedgie81763 жыл бұрын
@@carey_metv I'm sure the indians released them all when netting year-a-round!
@drewwolf25913 жыл бұрын
Why are there dislikes?
@elroyeolsonjr87293 жыл бұрын
Because some people still understand the good out weighs the bad
@jordanfrisky893411 ай бұрын
What about the salmon
@cravenmoorehead70993 жыл бұрын
What if it was the “grand culo” dam?
@hxhdfjifzirstc8943 жыл бұрын
"Damn!"
@sergeant_salty2 жыл бұрын
the Grand Culo Daayyyuummmm
@scottcampbell66173 жыл бұрын
NORTHWEST corner of Washington.
@davefransen50963 жыл бұрын
What's the point in this comment? Northwest corner of Washington would be up by Canada
@colleenkennedy19342 жыл бұрын
NorthEAST
@diane89373 ай бұрын
NW corner of Oregon, he meant.
@thegamechanger71572 жыл бұрын
We got lucky
@MarkWoodChannel3 жыл бұрын
Love how they only filmed starting in the US, if I'm Canada I'm building a massive dam.
@hughdunbar98233 жыл бұрын
"it begins in Canada, but who cares about that northern wasteland? Lets take a look starting in the centre of the universe, the USA"
@t.a.hurliman50002 жыл бұрын
When Nesara is implemented here in the USA, all damns on all rivers will be removed.
@drscopeify Жыл бұрын
They mean critical rivers not the Columbia river of course, the dams provide all of the electricity and very clean and cheap also massive floods are prevented by the dams that would make Portland area under water so they are not going anywhere I can promises you that.
@barkeyes859211 күн бұрын
The world was doing just fine without the damn Dam. 😅
@HiMarsPewPew2 жыл бұрын
Ohh what a PRIVILEGE for the Indians to be allowed to fish in THEIR OWN RIVER! #AmericasRacist
@ghostlyimageoffear62102 жыл бұрын
I'm certain the Chinese will be as solicitous!
@colleenkennedy19342 жыл бұрын
LMAO that's what you took from the video?? Somebody hates Whyte people a little too much
@sov19871987 Жыл бұрын
Own river? 😂😂😂 Yes, they will ask for permission.
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ป่าหวายโอนให้ใคร
@scorpion1914200112 күн бұрын
With 60 damn, and the power Pacific Ocean, Should there be an earthquake ever occur. Power flush. There will be nothing to stand its way.
@audiovoyage53173 жыл бұрын
1947 in color?
@jjkaiser19543 жыл бұрын
Yes. Gone With the Wind was made in the thirties and it was in color!
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
สำรวจเป็น100รอบ
@releventhurt3 жыл бұрын
What u saying to me
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ไฟฟ้าไม่มีใช้ได้ไง
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ขายตาทองเพชรก็จบแล้วเขานั้น
@pancakeface57173 жыл бұрын
A wonder and tragedy of human engineering. Not a river, today, a chain of artificial lakes.
@diane89373 ай бұрын
Then you haven't been on it!
@pancakeface57173 ай бұрын
@@diane8937 Huh?
@billrobbins58743 жыл бұрын
Was this filmed in the 60's?
@bryonhills61723 жыл бұрын
1947
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
เงินที่ได้มาก็โดนชิฟ
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ป่าเปล่าๆทำไมให้ทำไร
@sawatisbillings87593 жыл бұрын
idc what human's reap from these dammed dams! just BRING OUR SALMON BACK!!! Onkwehonwe and salmon...go together. Nyaweh
@dunruden97203 жыл бұрын
damned dams
@sawatisbillings87593 жыл бұрын
@@dunruden9720 LoL
@sawatisbillings87593 жыл бұрын
Dammit all!
@MARIAREY53 жыл бұрын
Dams are the worst invention of human kind we are capable of so amazing things but destroying our environment also tell us how lazy we can be to pursuit “efficiency “
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
สตรอง
@HanasDad6 ай бұрын
Lol! There are a couple of problems with this. First, these fish are clearly global warming deniers and should be cancelled. Also, 6:38 they meant to say "a few miles up the Willamette is the city of Portland... a major sh!thole of the Pacific Coast". There, I fixed it for ya!
@at66863 жыл бұрын
It’s now a useful river. No longer great.
@diane89373 ай бұрын
Still very great!
@at19703 ай бұрын
@@diane8937 Not if you like living rivers
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
ไม่ได้สนใจเครื่องจักร
@danielobriot31163 жыл бұрын
But sadly it Destroyed the salmon run too .
@greatplainsman36623 жыл бұрын
Red Fish Lake no longer has any red fish. Humans suck.
@nunyubiznezz3 жыл бұрын
Well you're obviously a super human God who knows everything....you FIX IT hot-shot.
@fletcherchambliss15903 жыл бұрын
Love how the Native Americans have to have a contract with the “government” to be able to fish. 🙄
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
To fish "year round" they needed a contract. Even in the 60's white man couldn't fish them when they were spawning.
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
Their current contract allows them to fish year round with gill nets. I've seen those nets stay in the water for 4 days, which is about 3 days too many. Over half of the fish got thrown back in because they were dead and rotting from sitting in the net too long.
@jasonwcoleman2503 жыл бұрын
The once booming sturgeon population is also nearly non existent here because of the "contract" the natives have regarding fishing. It's time to hold the natives to the same standards as their white neighbor.
@ExquisiteRainImports3 жыл бұрын
They shouldn't be getting any special treatment anyway.
@twostop68953 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwcoleman250 can't do it cause they are sovereign nations and set their own rules, it's called payback for genocide big losses of land from broken treaties, including the Black Hills of South Dakota
@bradleysmall22303 жыл бұрын
then biden was selected as prez
@soaringvulture3 жыл бұрын
Is there some way for you to be more pathetic? I don't think so.
@bradleysmall22303 жыл бұрын
@@soaringvulture but he was by the electoral collage
@soaringvulture3 жыл бұрын
@@bradleysmall2230 What's your problem, MAGAT? Spit it out.
@bradleysmall22303 жыл бұрын
@@soaringvulture my memory is biden selected by electors over trump by around 300 elector votes uinless i am in a diff reality..
@soaringvulture3 жыл бұрын
@@bradleysmall2230 Well, sort of. Biden won the electoral votes over Trump 306 to 232. And he won the popular vote 81 million over Trump's 74 million. What's your point?