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Oral history interview with Al Wright [Session 03, Recording 02]
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- 2002-07-12 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:27:58
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Albert E. Wright was born in Healdsburg, California, in 1942, and he grew up in Cloverdale, California. In 1965, he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as an engineer for Los Angeles Water and Power. He then relocated to Oregon and worked for the Oregon Water Resources Board during the administration of Governor Tom McCall. After McCall left office, Wright worked several other jobs in water resource management in Oregon and Washington. In 1981, he joined the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee, and became its executive director in 1985. He retired in the mid-1990s, and began a consulting business in Portland.
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Tape 4, Side 2. In the third interview session, conducted on July 12, 2002, Wright speaks at length about the relationship between the NWPPC and the Bonneville Power Administration. He discusses his work on the fish and wildlife committee of PNUCC, and speaks at length about the fish and wildlife plan of the council, including the science behind the plan, its effectiveness, and its implementation. He talks about the effectiveness of salmon hatcheries on the Columbia River, and about outcomes for hatchery fish. He discusses the allocation of the BPA budget for fish and energy conservation. He talks about working with some of the members of the council, including Norma Paulus; discusses the interests of electrical utilities in Montana; and speaks about working with the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Electric utilities--Deregulation--United States
- Electric utilities--Northwest, Pacific
- Energy policy--Northwest, Pacific
- Fishes--Conservation--Northwest, Pacific
- Salmon fisheries--Northwest, Pacific
- Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee
- Northwest Power Planning Council (U.S.)
- United States. Bonneville Power Administration
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- O'Rourke, Michael (Filmmaker) (Contributor)