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Boulder River (southwestern Montana)

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- elevation
  
7,339 ft (2,237 m)

- elevation
  
4,278 ft (1,304 m)

Source
  
Continental Divide Trail

Country
  
United States of America

- location
  
Length
  
124 km

Boulder River (southwestern Montana)

- location
  
Boulder Mountains, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest

The Boulder River is a 77-mile (124 km) tributary of the Jefferson River in southwestern Montana in the United States.

Map of Boulder River, Cardwell, MT, USA

It rises in the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in western Jefferson County. It flows east and southeast through the mountains past Boulder, then south to join the Jefferson near Cardwell.

Game fish in the river include brook, brown, and rainbow trout, and mountain whitefish. Brown trout are most prevalent in the last 2 miles (3 km), near the mouth, and the other three species are more prevalent in the reach upstream of the town of Boulder. The lowermost 12 miles (19 km) of the river is affected by irrigation withdrawals, and the reach below the community of Basin is affected by seepage from old mines and tailings.

References

Boulder River (southwestern Montana) Wikipedia


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