The Yampa River flows 250 miles through Northwest Colorado’s - TopicsExpress



          

The Yampa River flows 250 miles through Northwest Colorado’s farms and ranches, and towns including Steamboat Springs, before joining the Green at Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument. While most rivers in the Colorado River Basin have been dammed and diverted for water supply and hydropower, the Yampa remains wild and healthy – an example of what rivers in this region were meant to be. There is a dam on the upper Yampa but it is far enough upstream that the river’s natural flows and functions are essentially intact. Unlike its sister river, the Green (which is blocked by Flaming Gorge Dam), the Yampa is still able to transport sand and silt, building habitat like sandbars, beaches and back channels for an array of fish, birds and wildlife.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:05:07 +0000

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