By Becky Kramer, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Jun. 11--In 1807, explorer David Thompson watched salmon spawn at Columbia Lake in what is now British Columbia. The fish were so abundant that his clerk speared them at night by torchlight.

By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Dec.

By Richard Roesler, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Dec. 18--OLYMPIA -- Gov.

By Blaine Harden, Washington Post Staff Writer QUINCY, Wash. -- Microsoft is pouring concrete in a bean field on the west end of town. Yahoo is digging up a field of alfalfa out on the east end.

GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash. - Tourists are flocking back to the nation's engineering marvels - the dams, bridges and other structures that had seen increased security and lightened visitor traffic since September 2001 - despite the fact that they're still potential terrorist targets.