Stories

• Introduction
• River's tale winds long, rocky course
• The river as lifeline
• The river as recreation
• The river as salmon
• The river as power
• The river as industry
• The river as refuge
• The river as irrigator
• The river as icon
• The river as machine
• Just for kids
• Birth of the dams
• From the Herald archives

Resources

• Books
• Web resources

Interactive

• Contact your representative in Congress
• Go to our Snake River dams forum

In Search of the Snake

• Stories by Mike Lee
• Photos by André Ranieri

Call the Herald at 509-582-1500 for a copy of this special report

The mighty Snake River courses through the heart of the Northwest. Some say breaching four dams on its lowest stretch would save native salmon species from extinction; others claim it would drown the region's economy. As the research and the rhetoric stack up like driftwood, we search for the soul of the river by looking at how it flows through many lives along its 1,000-mile journey to the Columbia River.

This special report was published Oct. 1, 2000, in the Tri-City Herald, Tri-Cities, Wash.