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The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks operate approximately 275,265 acres (1,113.96 km 2) of state parks and access points on the state's rivers and lakes. The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation manages 5,200,000 acres (21,000 km 2) of School Trust Land ceded by the federal government under the Land Ordinance ...
The largest river by volume in Montana, [11] it drains an extensive region of the Rocky Mountains in western Montana and northern Idaho in the watershed of the Columbia River. The river flows northwest through a long valley at the base of the Cabinet Mountains and empties into Lake Pend Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle .
Bad Luck Creek (Idaho County, Idaho) Badger Creek; Bannock Creek; Battle Creek; Bear River (Boise River tributary) – Bear River tributary of the Boise River, Idaho; Bear River (Great Salt Lake) – Bear River in SE Idaho, SW Wyoming, and NE Utah corner; Beaver dam; Beaver Creek; Big Dick Creek; Big Lost River; Big Canyon Creek; Big Creek; Big ...
There are at least 3,223 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana.The following list contains lists of lakes and reservoirs in Montana by county. A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is not global).
Lake Pend Oreille (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / POND-ə-RAY) [2] in the northern Idaho Panhandle is the largest lake in the U.S. state of Idaho and the 38th-largest lake by area in the United States, with a surface area of 148 square miles (380 km 2).
Waters in these rivers flow north and east from the Laurentian Divide into Hudson Bay, a tributary of the Arctic Ocean, via the Saskatchewan and Nelson rivers. Belly River St. Mary River
Missoula is the largest city in Western Montana and the second-largest in the state after Billings. Western Montana, though faring better than much of the nation, was the portion of the state hit hardest by the current economic downturn. [6] [7] The closing of Smurfit-Stone Container in 2009 alone caused the loss of over 2000 jobs through 2012. [8]
The Port of Lewiston, at the confluence of the Clearwater and the Snake Rivers is the farthest inland seaport on the West Coast at 465 river miles from the Pacific at Astoria, Oregon. [1] A portion of Yellowstone national Park is located in Idaho. The other parts are in Montana and Wyoming.