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Interesting facts about the Grand Coulee Dam
How big is Grand Coulee Dam?
Grand Coulee Dam dwarfs the Great Pyramids of Egypt and generates more power than a million locomotives. An engineering wonder, it is also the country’s largest hydroelectric project.
Grand Coulee Dam is one of the largest concrete structures in the world, containing almost 12 million cubic yards of concrete. It towers 550 feet above bedrock (as high as the Washington Monument) and is 500 feet wide at the base. There is enough concrete in the dam to build two standard six-foot wide sidewalks around the world at the equator.
Read more facts about the big Grand Coulee Dam here
Wildlife videos from the Coulee
Steve Erwin, the Crocodile Hunter; Gordon Eastman; Jacques Cousteau; Nora Jenn: these are the names of great wildlife videographers.
Jenn, who lives in Coulee Dam and used to work for the National Park Service as well as the Bureau of Reclamation, films some interesting videos of animal life in our area and posts them on YouTube for all to enjoy.
One video shows a coyote howling on the ice of Banks Lake, while another shows a close-up of a young bald eagle eating a fish. Eagles trying to catch coots, an eagle swooping down close to a coyote, a hawk eating a mouse – these are just some of the other videos Jenn has filmed.
To read the full article go here and to view Jenn’s videos, go to http://www.youtube.com/couleedamsings.
Details on the wide variety of fishing in the Coulee area
Our page titled Are the fish biting? includes a lot of details on places to fish in the Grand Coulee area, what kinds of fish there are, a month by month guide, and more. Check it out!
Sasquatch writer coming to town
Northwest author and naturalist David George Gordon will speak about the mythical and iconic Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, at the Grand Coulee Library on March 8 at 6:30 p.m. in a free, hour-long program.
Read the full story here