Yellowstone River - Wikipedia
The Yellowstone River watershed is a river basin spanning 37,167 square miles (96,260 km 2) across Montana, with minor extensions into Wyoming and North Dakota, toward headwaters and terminus, respectively.
Yellowstone River - American Rivers
Map of the Yellowstone River watershed. The Backstory. To this day, the defeat of the massive dam proposal that would have flooded Paradise Valley remains one of the greatest environmental victories in Montana’s history.
Water - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
The Yellowstone River continues north and east through Montana and joins the Missouri River just across the North Dakota state line. Its watershed drains one third of the state of Montana. It carves out the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in the middle of the park and runs over the Upper and Lower Falls and is home to Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
Yellowstone River Basin - Montana
The Yellowstone River Basin is one of the four Montana regional water resource planning basins, and includes such major tributaries as the Bighorn, Tongue, and Powder rivers.
The Yellowstone River watershed drains 70,000 square miles (181,299 square km)—a land area about the size of Oklahoma. Temperatures within the watershed can get above 100 degrees F (approx. 38°C) in the summer and as cold as -30 degrees F (approx. -34°C) in the winter. About 43 percent of the Yellowstone River watershed
Water Resources Monitoring in the Yellowstone River at Corwin ...
The Yellowstone River has relatively high water quality and much of the watershed upstream from the monitoring location is managed within federal lands. We sampled the Yellowstone River for water chemistry and core water quality parameters eight times from March to November in 2022.
Yellowstone River - U.S. National Park Service
Dec 7, 2022 · The Yellowstone River is the last major undammed river in the lower 48 states, flowing 671 miles (1080 km) from its source southeast of Yellowstone into the Missouri River and then, eventually, into the Atlantic Ocean. It begins in …