Excerpt from Uncle Sam in the Pacific Northwest: Federal Management of Natural Resources in the Columbia River Valley The Mitchell Bill, introduced in February, 1945, first spelled out the detailed basis for a federal valley authority-program for the Columbia Valley region. Its publication was greeted within the Pacific Northwest with paeans of praise from public ownership advocates, most of the leaders Of the Washington and Oregon state granges, and many other citizens concerned With a comprehensive and integrated plan for develop ing the region's water resources and for placing on a sustained yield or on a conservation basis the management of the land and mineral wealth over which the agents of the national government exercise financial, administra tive, or legal responsibility. Anguished cries of even greater volume and intensity came from other regional residents and organizations, private utility Officials, chambers of commerce, the National Reclamation Associa tion, and many other business groups, who protested and denounced all valley-authority legislation for the Columbia. The protagonists of change charged that existing federal agencies within the region had failed to make the most of the resource potentialities for its people and for the nation, had supported piecemeal and duplicating plans and programs, and had engaged in enervating jealous conflict. The Opponents of the authority idea countered with praise for the plans and achievements of the galaxy of bureaus entrusted with the development and management tasks and With charges of federal dictatorship and communistic objectives lurking behind the authority facade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.