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]
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abBugosh, Nicholas (2000).
"Lower Selway River Subbasin Assessment"(PDF). Lewiston, Idaho: Lewiston Regional Office, Idaho Division of Environmental Quality. Archived from
the original(PDF) on September 18, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
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.
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