Selway River

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Selway River
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Selway River at the Goat Creek rapid
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Course of the river
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Location of the mouth of the Selway River in Idaho
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Selway River (the United States)
Location
Country United States
State Idaho
County Idaho
Physical characteristics
SourceSoutheast of Stripe Mountain
 • location Bitterroot National Forest, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Bitterroot Mountains
 • coordinates 45°29′49″N114°44′37″W / 45.49694°N 114.74361°W / 45.49694; -114.74361 [1]
 • elevation6,857 ft (2,090 m) [2]
Mouth Meets Lochsa River to form Middle Fork Clearwater River
 • location
 Lowell, Nez Perce National Forest
 • coordinates
 46°08′25″N115°35′58″W / 46.14028°N 115.59944°W / 46.14028; -115.59944 [1]
 • elevation
1,453 ft (443 m) [1]
Length100 mi (160 km) [3]
Basin size2,013 sq mi (5,210 km2) [4]
Discharge 
 • locationLowell, Idaho
 • average3,773 cuft/s
 • minimum580 cuft/s
 • maximum29 573 cuft/s
TypeWild, Recreational
DesignatedOctober 2, 1968
Reference no.P.L. 90-542

The Selway River is a large tributary of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in the U.S. state of Idaho. It flows within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the Bitterroot National Forest, and the Nez Perce National Forest of North Central Idaho. [5] The entire length of the Selway was included by the United States Congress in 1968 as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. [6]

Contents

The main stem of the Selway is 100 miles (160 km) in length [3] from the headwaters in the Bitterroots to the confluence with the Lochsa near Lowell to form the Middle Fork of the Clearwater. The Selway River drains a 2,013-square-mile (5,210 km2) basin in Idaho County. [4]

History

The Selway River is home to Chinook salmon. Four salmon channels were built "in the mid-1960s by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and by the Job Corps ... along the Selway to help re-establish the spring chinook run after hydroelectric dams were built downstream." The river was stocked with salmon eggs and fry "each fall through 1981, and again in 1985." [7] A 1993 book about the project, Indian Creek Chronicles, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award. [8] [9]

Flora

Wildlife

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White-tail deer in the Selway River

Recreation

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Selway River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. June 21, 1979. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
  3. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey. "The National Map: National Hydrography Dataset High-Resolution Flowline Data" . Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Bugosh, Nicholas (2000). "Lower Selway River Subbasin Assessment" (PDF). Lewiston, Idaho: Lewiston Regional Office, Idaho Division of Environmental Quality. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ Idaho Atlas & Gazetteer (6th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2007. pp. 52–53, 55–56. ISBN   978-0-89933-284-0.
  6. ↑ "Clearwater River (Middle Fork), Idaho". National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ Briggeman, Kim (June 12, 2011). "Students immersed in Magruder Corridor". Missoulian . Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  8. ↑ Fromm, Pete (2003). Indian Creek chronicles. New York: Picador. ISBN   0312422725.
  9. ↑ "Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved December 1, 2013.

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