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The Redwater River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 110 mi (177 km), in eastern Montana in the United States.. It rises in on the northern slope of the Big Sheep Mountains, in northwestern Prairie County, and flows northeast across the plains past Brockway and Circle and joins the Missouri in northeastern McCone County, approximately 4 mi (6 km) south of Poplar.
Relief map of Montana. The state's topography is roughly defined by the Continental Divide, which splits much of the state into distinct eastern and western regions. [4] Most of Montana's hundred or more named mountain ranges are in the state's western half, most of which is geologically and geographically part of the northern Rocky Mountains.
Smith River (Montana) South Fork Flathead River; South Fork Musselshell River; Spotted Bear River; St. Mary River (Alberta–Montana) St. Regis River (Montana) Stillwater River (Stillwater County, Montana) Stillwater River (Flathead County, Montana) Sun River; Swan River (Montana) Sweet Grass Creek
To this day, Eastern Montana has a proud Native American population. Eastern Montana was the location of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [3] Fort Peck Dam near Glasgow, Montana was a major project of the Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal. Construction of Fort Peck Dam started in 1933, and at its peak in July 1936 employed ...
The geology of Montana includes thick sequences of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlying ancient Archean and Proterozoic crystalline basement rock. . Eastern Montana has considerable oil and gas resources, while the uplifted Rocky Mountains in the west, which resulted from the Laramide orogeny and other tectonic events have locations with met
Medicine Rocks is part of the Fort Union Formation, a geologic unit containing coal, sandstone, and shale in Montana, Wyoming, and other adjacent states. [11] About 61 million years ago, near the start of the Paleocene Epoch and during the late Zuñi sequence, a freshwater river crossed what is now eastern Montana, flowing southeast into a prehistoric sea whose boundary was near far ...
The Madison River is widely regarded as one of the finest trout fisheries in the world. [6] [7] [8] It is classified as a blue ribbon fishery in Montana, where fly fisherman target brown trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and mountain whitefish. [9] Grizzly bears and wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park roam the river valley. [10]