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The Cosumnes River is a river in northern California in the United States. It rises on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and flows approximately 52.5 miles (84.5 km) [ 2 ] into the Central Valley , emptying into the Mokelumne River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta .
The area was given the name "Flaming Gorge" by John Wesley Powell during his 1869 expedition down the Green River, due to the spectacular, gorgeous red sandstone cliffs that surround this part of the river. [2] The Flaming Gorge reservoir was created by the 1964 construction of the Flaming Gorge Dam across the Green River.
WYO 530 intersects no major highways along its 45-mile (72 km) route, however, it is a very scenic road, paralleling Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The reservoir is famous for its fishing, especially bass fishing, and has one of the largest shorelines in the state. It is the result of the Green River being dammed up near Dutch John, Utah. When ...
The Cosumnes River Preserve is a nature preserve of over 51,000 acres (210 km 2) located 20 miles (30 km) south of Sacramento, in the US state of California. The preserve protects a Central Valley remnant that once contained one of the largest expanses of oak tree savanna, riparian oak forest and wetland habitat in North America. [ 1 ]
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In the U.S. state of Wyoming there are about 4,200 lakes (with over 333,000 acres (1,348 km 2) of water) and over 27,000 miles (43,000 km) of fishable streams. [1] There are 78 fish species, 28 of which are game fish (including 9 native species) and 50 are nongame fish (including 40 native species).
Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The reservoir stores 3,788,900 acre-feet (4.6735 × 10 9 m 3) of water when measured at an elevation of 6,040 feet (1,841 m) above sea-level (maximum).
Flaming Gorge can refer to: Flaming Gorge Dam , the dam in northeastern Utah, United States that forms the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area , a recreation area surrounding the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northern eastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming in the Western United States