Snake River in a sentence

Many of the rivers that flow into the Snake River Plain from the north sink into the Snake River Aquifer, but still contribute their water to the river.

Salmon can travel up the Snake River as far as Hells Canyon Dam, using the fish passage facilities of the four lower Snake River dams, leaving the Clearwater, Grande Ronde and Salmon river to sustain spawning salmon.

The Portneuf River Valley is an overflow channel that in the last glacial period carried floodwaters from pluvial Lake Bonneville into the Snake River Plain, carving out many topographic features and significantly altering the Snake River landscape.

The rest of the Snake River watershed borders on several other major Columbia River tributaries - mostly the Spokane River to the north, but also Clark Fork in Montana to the northeast and the John Day River to the west.

The Snake River Council will now be formed into a single district called the Snake River District.

During low water, algae blooms occur throughout the calm stretches of the river, depleting its oxygen supply. citation Dams like Milner Dam divert water from the Snake River for irrigation, which causes many of the pollution problems in the Snake.

It hugged the southern edge of the Snake River canyon and was a much rougher trail with poorer water and grass, requiring occasional steep descents and ascents with the animals down into the Snake River canyon to get water.

These rains fed the Snake River, helping it to cut through the Tetons, forming the Snake River Canyon of Wyoming.

The Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout (or Snake River cutthroat trout) is the only native trout species in Grand Teton National Park. citation It is also the only subspecies of cutthroat trout that is exclusively native to large streams and rivers.

The Snake River near Jackson, Wyoming, in 1871 Later American explorers traveled throughout the Snake River area and up its major tributaries beginning in 1806, just after Lewis and Clark had returned.

The Snake River's annual salmon run, which was estimated at that time to exceed four million in good years, supported the Nez Perce, who lived in permanent, well-defined villages, unlike the nomadic southeastern tribes along the Snake River.

On the return trip in 1806 they traveled from the Columbia River to the Snake River and the Clearwater River over Lolo pass again.

The largest tributary of the Columbia River, the Snake River watershed makes up about 41% of the entire Columbia River Basin.

There are also high, often localized levels of mollusc endemism, especially in Hells Canyon and the basins of the Clearwater River, Salmon River, and middle Snake River.

The trail then went to the Malheur River and then past Farewell Bend on the Snake River, up the Burnt River canyon and northwest to the Grande Ronde Valley near present-day La Grande before coming to the Blue Mountains.

Beginning in 1843, wagon trains coming up from newly-opened South Pass joined the Snake very near to what’s now called Miracle Valley located at the head of the Snake River Canyon.

It includes the mainstem Columbia below the Snake River and tributaries such as the Salmon, John Day, Deschutes, and lower Snake Rivers.

Many different government and private agencies have worked to build dams on the Snake River, which now serve an important purpose for people living in the Snake's drainage basin and trade of agricultural products to Pacific seaports.

The watershed of the Columbia upstream of the Snake River confluence is convert, just slightly smaller than that of the Snake.

Last month, federal agencies delivered their final environmental impact statement, which was supposed to transparently evaluate the Lower Snake River dams’ impacts on Columbia River salmon.