You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

The Fraser River courses through more than one half-dozen distinct geo-climactic zones, North America’s most diverse indigenous landscape and the essence of British Columbia (B.C.) history.

That led dozens of media outlets along the West Coast to report the comments were about the Columbia, which is the only river that starts in Canada before emptying directly into the Pacific Ocean.