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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaHousebout on Lake Roosevelt
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
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In 1941 the Grand Coulee Dam was built on the Columbia River as part of the Columbia River Basin project, creating a 130-mile long lake. Named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area provides opportunities for boating, fishing, swimming, camping, canoeing, hunting and visiting historic Fort Spokane and St. Paul's Mission.
 
View of the Grand Coulee Dam from the down river side.
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Grand Coulee Dam
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Wild hyacinth is also known as the douglas brodaia  

Did You Know?
The pretty violet flowers of this wild hyacinth grows at Lake Roosevelt. An important food source, its small but sweet onion bulb is still popular. Covered by a fibrous netting called a corm net, excavated and carbon dated corm nets established that people lived at Kettle Falls 9,500 years ago.

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Last Updated: December 12, 2006 at 10:23 EST