Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Katherine L. Bohnet and Phyllis E. Brown
Oral history interview with Katherine L. Bohnet and Phyllis Brown, conducted by Clark Hansen on April 12, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Bohnet and Brown discuss dryland farming in Wilson Creek, Washington, and their fight to have their lands removed from the Columbia Basin Project, an irrigation development that supplies water from the Columbia River to central Washington.
Oral history interview with Walter R. Butcher
Oral history interview with Walter R. Butcher, conducted by Clark Hansen on October 23, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Butcher discusses government programs that benefit farmers, particularly the Columbia River Basin Irrigation Project, as well as his involvement with cost-benefit studies related to dams and irrigation projects.