Leaving a Mess
Trees vs. Owls
Lotsa People
Timber, Salmon & Electricity
Even More People
100
Cleaning up this material at Hanford was the largest and most expensive public works project in American history. (p 183)
What is plutonium?
100
Many lumber mills in the 1990s were closed because of this. (p 184)
What was a shortage of logs?
100
Pollution asphalt and concrete conflicted with Seattle's image as this. (p 180)
What is the Emerald City?
100
This court decision ruled that Native American tribes were entitled to 50 percent of all salmon and steelhead that pass through Native lands. (p 187)
What is the Boldt Decision?
100
Experts say Seattle's traffic congestion could be solved by this system. (p 181)
What is mass transit?
200
Lake Roosevelt was polluted with levels of these substances--among the highest in the nation. (p 182)
What are cadmium and lead?
200
Our state's Department of Health named this river as the most polluted with chemicals and other waste from industrial sites. (p 182)
What is the Spokane River?
200
Starting in the 1960s and 70s, many people had become of aware of this problem. (p 180)
What is environmental damage?
200
About 90 percent of fish in the Northwest begin here. (p 186)
What are hatcheries?
200
These people are Washington's largest ethnic minority. (p 191)
Who are Hispanics?
300
In the mid-1980s, the Hanford site was a concern because of this. (p 183)
What was radioactive materials released in the atmosphere?
300
These heavy metals in mountains were one cause of mine wastes making their way into groundwater. (p 182)
What are lead, zinc, cadmium, and arsenic?
300
In 1999 satellite photos above Seattle showed this declined by 50 percent in 20 years. (p 180)
What was Seattle's natural tree cover?
300
Timber companies, afraid of running out of trees on their own lands, began to do this in the 1990s. (184)
What is cutting down trees in national forests?
300
Tribal gambling operations, a successful way to bring in money and jobs for Native American tribes, are known as this. (p 189)
What is the new buffalo?
400
World Trade Organization protestors in Seattle claimed the WTO was an organization of this. (p 190)
What is capitalist greed?
400
This was considered an "ally" of the environmentalists? (p 185)
What is the spotted owl?
400
Spokane's Expo 74's theme was this. (p 181)
What is Progress Without Pollution?
400
This aimed to balance the needs for power and electricity with the needs of salmon and other wildlife. (p 186)
What is the Northwest Power Act?
400
In preparation for Expo 74, Spokane did this to clean up the Spokane River running through the city. (p 181)
What was constructing a sewage treatment plant?
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