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Map of the Salmon River drainage basin with tributaries. The Salmon River, also known as the "River of No Return", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2).
The Snake River is a short tributary of the Blue River, approximately 15 miles (24 km) long, in central Colorado in the United States. It drains a mountainous area on the west side of the Front Range in southeastern Summit County east of Keystone .
Salmon Falls Creek is a tributary of the Snake River, flowing from northern Nevada into Idaho in the United States. Formed in high mountains at the northern edge of the Great Basin, Salmon Falls Creek flows northwards 121 miles (195 km), [3] draining an arid and mountainous basin of 2,103 square miles (5,450 km 2).
The first Euro-Americans to reach the Snake River watershed were the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who in August 1805 crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass and descended to the Salmon River at what is now Salmon, Idaho, naming the stream "Lewis's River". Thwarted by the river's rapids, they were forced to cross the Bitterroot Mountains via ...
Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 km 2 (8,304 mi 2) Little Snake River 10,629 km 2 (4,104 mi 2) Roaring Fork Little Snake River; Middle Fork Little Snake River; North Fork Little Snake River; South Fork Little Snake River; Bear River; Elk River. South Fork Elk River; Middle Fork Elk River; North Fork Elk River; Williams Fork ...
The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native ...
Map of the Colorado River drainage basin The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River , the San Juan River , the Green River , and the Gunnison River . Tributary tree
The new report on historic and negative impacts of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers said that historically abundant wild salmon and steelhead contributed to thriving tribal cultures and ...