Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northern Idaho rising in three forks and flowing about 150 km (90 mi) generally west to the Snake River. Its forks pass through the Clearwater Mountains, a section of the Rocky Mountains west of the Bitterroot Range.
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Examples
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His book Clearwater Way is forthcoming from Traprock Books in 2009; it takes the form of a journey from Seaview, Washington, up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Lewiston and into the Clearwater River county of Idaho.
Portland Book Events: February 8-14 - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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His book Clearwater Way is forthcoming from Traprock Books in 2009; it takes the form of a journey from Seaview, Washington, up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Lewiston and into the Clearwater River county of Idaho.
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And if you are into white-water rafting, Clearwater River is some of the best in the world.
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A second large unit comprises the mountains of central and eastern Idaho south of the Clearwater River.
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It's right under us and I'm on the banks of the Clearwater River, John, where over 200 years ago, an explorer came by, saw a film on the water, and came out and he found this on the shore.
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This ecoregion, however, reaches its southern limit at the Clearwater River in Central Idaho, rather than stretching to the Snake River shrub steppe as in Omernik.
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The Salmon and Clearwater River drainages, major tributaries to the Snake River in Idaho, have westslope cutthroat trout as the native trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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For example, in the Salmon and Clearwater River drainages of Idaho, the native redband trout has the sea-going steelhead life history.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Westslope cutthroat trout coevolved and coexisted with native rainbow-redband trout mainly with the steelhead life history in the John Day River drainage, the easternslope Cascade drainages, and the Salmon and Clearwater River drainages.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Waha Lake is isolated from external connections, but during the last glacial period its outflow would have connected to the Clearwater River drainage.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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