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Henry Brannan States Newsroom|Jul 10, 2025

For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane to move sedan-sized boulders miles out into the mouth of the Columbia River. "You don't want it to slip out and drop," Allen said, sitting in the 240-ton crane's cab Friday. "So when you grab a rock, you just think, 'Yeah, that'll work, that should hold,' and you go for it." Allen and nine others at specialized construction firm J.E. McAmis have already precisely placed about 32,000...