June 8, 2001

The Vanished Frontier; Those Tiresome Baby Boomers; Food Studies

Was it really necessary to destroy nature in order to create U.S. society as we know it today? A single instance -- that of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River -- illustrates the type of trade-off involved. When the Grand Coulee Dam was completed in September 1941 it destroyed the most productive salmon fishery in the world. The dam was so high and formidable that spawning fish could not cross it, and no fish ladder yet designed could help.

When the United States was plunged

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