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The Columbia: Beginning and End

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

The Columbia: Beginning and End

Season 10 Episode 8 | 7m 20s | CC

If finding the river’s mouth was difficult, so too was locating the river’s remote origins in British Columbia. It wasn’t followed from headwaters-to mouth by explorers until 1811. The river has been tamed by dams. Fed by rain, ice and snowmelt, one wonders with climate change, will the Columbia “roll on” in more than song?

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