I get scared just looking at the falls, it's frightening to think if you were to fall in the spokane river at that point. I love Spokane, yet I stay away away from that river and it's more frightening than beautiful to me. Lolol
Ah the good old days when you could use a rivers energy for clean power and flood control. Plus, the creation of beautiful lakes. I graduated from Ferris in 1972 so I probably watched this back then.
Shawn Vestal of the Spokesman-Review wrote a great story about the filmmaker Robert L. Pryor: www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/nov/24/shawn-vestal-four-old-documentaries-on-spokane-wor/
Sad to learn of the history of this river. A once mighty river that housed the PNW largest salmon and steelhead runs. Now reduced to nothing because of the dams and the chemicals dumped into the river. Maybe one day they will remove the dams on this river and we will see these fish return like they did on the Elwha river.
Robert Pryor....my father's cousin. Love this!
Lotta dam history here, love it!
I get scared just looking at the falls, it's frightening to think if you were to fall in the spokane river at that point. I love Spokane, yet I stay away away from that river and it's more frightening than beautiful to me. Lolol
Ah the good old days when you could use a rivers energy for clean power and flood control. Plus, the creation of beautiful lakes. I graduated from Ferris in 1972 so I probably watched this back then.
I graduated from Ferris in 2020💪
The lake is covered in homes now.
Shawn Vestal of the Spokesman-Review wrote a great story about the filmmaker Robert L. Pryor: www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/nov/24/shawn-vestal-four-old-documentaries-on-spokane-wor/
Sad to learn of the history of this river. A once mighty river that housed the PNW largest salmon and steelhead runs. Now reduced to nothing because of the dams and the chemicals dumped into the river. Maybe one day they will remove the dams on this river and we will see these fish return like they did on the Elwha river.