Selway River

Selway River
Selway River
	Selway River at the Goat Creek rapid
	Course of the river
	Location of the mouth of the Selway River in Idaho Selway River (the United States)
Location
Country	United States
State	Idaho
County	Idaho
Physical characteristics
Source	Southeast of Stripe Mountain
• location	Bitterroot National Forest, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Bitterroot Mountains
• coordinates	45°29′49″N 114°44′37″W / 45.49694°N 114.74361°W
• elevation	6,857 ft (2,090 m)
Mouth	Meets Lochsa River to form Middle Fork Clearwater River
• location	Lowell, Nez Perce National Forest
• coordinates	46°08′25″N 115°35′58″W / 46.14028°N 115.59944°W
• elevation	1,453 ft (443 m)
Length	100 mi (160 km)
Basin size	2,013 sq mi (5,210 km2)
Discharge
• location	Lowell, Idaho
• average	3,773 cuft/s
• minimum	580 cuft/s
• maximum	29 573 cuft/s
National Wild and Scenic River
Type	Wild, Recreational
Designated	October 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]

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

Cedar - Western red cedar
ferns
Firs – Douglas and grand fir
Huckleberries
Pine - ponderosa pine
Spruce - Engelmann spruce

Wildlife

Birds
- Bald eagle
- Grouse
- Heron
- Osprey
- Owls
- Wild turkey
Fish
- Trout
- Salmon
  - Chinook
  - coho
- Mountain whitefish
Mammals
- Bighorn sheep
- American black bear
- Cougar
- Elk
- Fisher
- Gray wolf
- Lynx
- Moose
- Mountain goat
- Mule deer
- Northern river otter
- Skunk
- Weasel
- White-tailed deer
- Wolverine

Recreation

Backcountry skiing
Camping
Fly fishing – Limits and catch-and-release
Hiking
Whitewater rafting – permits required
Hunting

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Selway River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. June 21, 1979. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
^ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey. "The National Map: National Hydrography Dataset High-Resolution Flowline Data". Retrieved May 3, 2011.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Idaho Atlas & Gazetteer (6th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2007. pp. 52–53, 55–56. ISBN 978-0-89933-284-0.
^ "Clearwater River (Middle Fork), Idaho". National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
^ Briggeman, Kim (2011-06-12). "Students immersed in Magruder Corridor". Missoulian. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
^ Fromm, Pete (2003). Indian Creek chronicles. New York: Picador. ISBN 0312422725.
^ "Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2013-12-01.

Bibliography

Floating the Wild Selway. (1991) [Missoula, Mont.?] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region.
Selway River Corridor: A Guide to Recreation on the Moose Creek Ranger District. (2000) Kooskia, Idaho : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Nez Perce National Forest, Moose Creek Ranger Station.
Selway River fisheries investigations : job completion report. (1979) [Idaho] : Idaho Dept. of Fish & Game.
A survey and evaluation of archaeological resources in the Magruder Corridor, Bitterroot National Forest, east-central Idaho, 1969. (1969) Pocatello, Idaho : Idaho State University Museum.

External links

[gnis-1] "Selway River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. June 21, 1979. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

[source-2] Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.

[NHD-3] U.S. Geological Survey. "The National Map: National Hydrography Dataset High-Resolution Flowline Data". Retrieved May 3, 2011.

[Bugosh-4] 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 (2011-06-12). "Students immersed in Magruder Corridor". Missoulian. Retrieved 2013-12-01.

[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 2013-12-01.

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