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The Bitterroot River is a northward flowing 84-mile (135 km) [2] river running through the Bitterroot Valley, from the confluence of its West and East forks near Conner in southern Ravalli County to its confluence with the Clark Fork River near Missoula in Missoula County, in western Montana. The Clark Fork River is a tributary to the Columbia ...
The Northern Bitterroot Range is the northernmost and shortest subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains. The Northern Bitterroots encompass 1,869 square miles (4,841 km 2 ) and its two tallest peaks are the 7,930 foot (2,417 m) Rhodes Peak and the 7,770 foot (2,368 m) Quartz Benchmark .
The bitterroot was selected as the Montana state flower in 1895. [ 13 ] Three major geographic features – the Bitterroot Mountains (running north–south and forming the divide between Idaho and Montana), the Bitterroot Valley , and the Bitterroot River (which flows south–north, terminating in the Clark Fork river in the city of Missoula ...
The Bitterroot Valley had nearly a million apple trees in the early 1900s, and was one of the world's largest producers of MacIntosh apples at that time. Irrigation was provided by about 80 miles (130 km) of canals. Although the Bitterroot Valley's orchards became less competitive with apple orchards in Washington state after hailstorms in 1922 ...
The Bitterroot Range is a mountain range and a subrange of the Rocky Mountains that runs along the border of Montana and Idaho in the northwestern United States. The range spans an area of 24,223 square miles (62,740 km 2) and is named after the bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), a small pink flower that is the state flower of Montana. [1][2]
Henson Creek (see Broad Creek, Prince George's County, Maryland) Oxon Creek. Oxon Run. Anacostia River. Anacostia River watershed. Watts Branch (Anacostia River tributary) Dueling Creek. Northeast Branch Anacostia River. Beaverdam Creek.
Little Bitterroot River is in northwestern Montana. It in the mountains west of Kalispell north of Marion or about 25 miles (40 km) west-northwest of Flathead Lake. It flows south-southeastward for 65 miles (105 km) to the Flathead River, which goes into the Clark Fork of the Columbia. [ 2] The basin covers about 600 square miles (1,600 km 2 ...
ISBN 978-1-879628-27-4. Sediment deposited by the lake with a hammer for scale. Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. The lake measured about 7,770 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi) and contained about 2,100 cubic kilometres ...