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]

Selway River
Selway River at the Goat Creek rapid
Course of the river
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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[1]
• elevation	6,857 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″N 115°35′58″W[1]
• elevation	1,453 ft (443 m)[1]
Length	100 mi (160 km)[3]
Basin size	2,013 sq mi (5,210 km2)[4]
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 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

Recreation

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

See also

• List of rivers of Idaho
• List of longest streams of Idaho
• List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers

References

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Selway River.

• Friends of the Clearwater
• NPR Radio expeditions
• Visit Idaho - Selway River site

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