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  Paddling Montana ~~ Excerpted from Paddling Montana by Hank Fisher
The Dearborn's clarity impressed Meriwether Lewis, and he made this observation after a brief exploratory trip on July 18, 1805: "At the distance to 2.5 miles we passed the entrance of a considerable river on the Stard.
The highly picturesque Dearborn gets its start high on Scapegoat Mountain near the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and it carves a deep and beautiful path as it winds its way out of the mountains and onto the open country that once was the buffalo hunting grounds of the Blackfeet Indians.
Although the Dearborn is rather small, it's a high-quality stream with a floatable distance of 45 miles.
visitmt.com /falcon/Paddling9_Dearborn_River_final.htm   (1134 words)

  
 Dearborn County History
Geographically, Dearborn County is a mixture of flatlands in the northwest and rolling hills divided by several creeks forming long valleys throughout the county.
The principle waterways are the Whitewater River in the northwest corner of the county, the east and west forks of Tanners Creek, North and South Hogan Creeks, and Laughery Creek.
The population of Dearborn County grew from 4,424 in 1815 to 23,000 by 1890.
www.dearborncounty.org /history/dchistory.html   (823 words)

  
 USCM | Graffiti Campaign to Reach Youngsters Before They Spray | Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn has long been known for its annual springtime clean-up parades, where students from dozens of local elementary schools march in the streets to promote the "clean-up, paint-up, fix-up" of their neighborhoods.
Dearborn's Retention Treatment Tunnel project is unique among the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) projects currently under construction is southeastern Michigan in an effort to eliminate raw sewage flowing into the Rouge River during wet weather events.
Dearborn officials conducted a thorough review of the various options available to meet the strict requirements for reduction of CSO overflows that are contained in the city's NPDES permit.
www.usmayors.org /USCM/best_practices/bp_volume_2/dearborn.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Dearborn Michigan Community and Demographic Information
Dearborn, a city with over 91,000 residents, combines a rich heritage, a strong feeling of community, and a healthy commercial and industrial base.
Dearborn is representative of the Detroit Metro average in many statistics including the education level of residents, median income, median housing value, and the size and types of homes, yet it has its own distinct personality and features that make it a desirable place to live and work.
Dearborn residents enjoy the fact that no matter where they live, they are always just a short walk away from a tot-lot or park.
www.steve-hatfield.com /drbnstat.htm   (665 words)

  
 Henry Dearborn - Likeness of New Hampshire War Heroes & Personages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In Summer 1779, Dearborn's regiment was a part of the force led by General John Sullivan against the Six Nations, in central New York.
Dearborn was asked by Republican president Thomas Jefferson to serve as Secretary of War, and Dearborn held this cabinet post throughout Jefferson's two terms in office (1800-1808).
Dearborn personally led American troops from Plattsburgh, New York after the latter defeat; but the troops failed to contact British forces and returned to Plattsburgh without anything to show for their exertions.
www.nh.gov /nhdhr/warheroes/dearbornh.html   (642 words)

  
 Dearborn, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dearborn's population includes 30,000 Arab-Americans, [1] [2] [3], the second largest Arab population of any community in the United States.
February 14, 1927 Village of Dearborn residents approve vote to become a city.
Dearborn residents and a small portion of Dearborn Heights are zoned to schools in Dearborn Public Schools which operates 34 schools including 3 major high schools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan   (2373 words)

  
 The Dearborn River : Montana Fly Fishing
The Dearborn River begins in the Scapegoat Wilderness, part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, and flows for more than sixty miles to the confluence with the Missouri River near Craig, MT. The Dearborn River initially flows through rugged, mountainous, terrain, before spilling out onto the plains of the Rocky Mountain Front.
The lower section of the Dearborn River begins at the Highway 434 Bridge, and extends for forty miles downstream to the Missouri River.
Fishing pressure is very low on the lower stretch of the Dearborn River, due to difficult access and its close proximity to other well-known rivers.
www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/Central-MT-Rivers/dearborn-river/dearborn_overview.htm   (744 words)

  
 Dearborn whirling disease severe - greatfallstribune.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On a scale of zero to 5, where zero means no infection, five test areas in the Dearborn ranged from 1.8 near the mouth of the Dearborn to 4.73 in the Middle Fork and 4.66 in the South Fork of the river.
The Dearborn, Little Prickly Pear and Sheep Creek are the main tributaries to the Missouri in which rainbow trout spawn.
In 2001, researchers found a trace of whirling disease in the Dearborn; in 2002, whirling disease increased to 2 on the scale of 1 to 5 that researchers use to classify the disease's intensity.
www.greatfallstribune.com /news/stories/20040106/localnews/173298.html   (1110 words)

  
 Dearborn Area Living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The city of Dearborn Heights leased the school from the North Dearborn Heights School District in November 1965 for use as a public museum, which it continues as today.
Dearborn was a Revolutionary War and War of 1812 hero who died a few years before.
The Dearborn Inn opened as the Airport Inn July 1, 1931, and was one of the first hotels in the world built specifically to serve a nearby airport.
www.dearbornarealiving.com /attractions.shtml   (2336 words)

  
 State of Montana
A new watershed group is in the formative stages for the Dearborn River and with one major diverter, and two lesser diverters, the number of irrigators is manageable for the implementation of a streamflow plan.
The Dearborn is an important spawning river for the rainbow trout population of the Missouri River below Craig, Montana and has yet to indicate the presence of whirling disease.
USGS Stream gage near the mouth of the Blackfoot River on June 23 measured a flow of 2,290 cfs which is below the 50% exceedence for this date of 3,700 and the is near the 80% exceedance flow of 2,090 cfs.
nris.state.mt.us /drought/committee/reports/DACBOR2000summ.html   (2497 words)

  
 Dearborn River - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The Dearborn River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in western Montana in the United States.
It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, near Scapegoat Mountain in the Lewis and Clark Range of the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide, in western Lewis and Clark County.
It is crossed by the Dearborn River High Bridge, which was constructed in 1897.
www.music.us /education/D/Dearborn-River.htm   (322 words)

  
 The Effect of the Car on a City
Dearborn at the time of the potato famine of Ireland was a small village which had about 60 families and consisted of a foundry, a sawmill, and a smithy with a plank Road going through this little settlement.
In the Dearborn Guide newspaper it described some of the city’s richest history and how it can still be studied by looking at the fine homes built in the twenties and the early families that settled North of the River in what is known as "old Dearborn".
The Southern and Western boundaries of Dearborn is the oldest part of the city bounded by a Chrysler Plant at Ford and Wyoming, the tracks of the Detroit Trunk Railroad and Tireman and Wyoming, was part of the cities of Springwells and Fordson.
www.is.wayne.edu /blynch/lawera.htm   (9828 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain Front Fly Fishing and Camping
The first of these is the Dearborn River, which is closest to Highway 200 (the main artery which connects Missoula and Great Falls).
Although this creek-sized river appears to be a sterile environment of rock pools and slides in gin-clear water, the fish are fairly abundant.
The main stem of the Teton River was scoured in the flood of 1964, and subsequent flood years wiped out the river's holding water and insect populations.
www.glaciertoyellowstone.com /fly_fishing_montana/rocky_mountain_front.cfm   (3595 words)

  
 February 14, 1806
the rivers are also connected at their sources with other rivers agreeably to the information of the natives and the most probable conjecture arrising from their capacities and the relative positions of their rispective entrances which last have with but few exceptions been established by celestial observation.
In the Map the Missouri Jefferson's river the S. branch of the Columbia or Lewis's river, Koos-koos-ke and Columbia from the enterance of the S. fork to the pacific Ocian, as well as a part of Clark's river and our track across the Rocky Mountains are laid down by celestial observations and Survey.
the rivers are also conected at their Sources with other rivers agreeably to the information of the nativs and the most probable conjecture arrising from their capacities and the relative positions of their respective enterances which last have with but fiew exceptions been established by celestial observations.
www.factmonster.com /t/hist/lewis-clark-journal/day642.html   (472 words)

  
 July 8, Mah-pah-pah ah-zhah
hortly after crossing the Dearborn River, Lewis saw that the Indian road "continued along the foot of the mountain to the West of north"--possibly the ancient way now known as the Old North Trail--so he and his men cut northeast across the "tolerably level" plain towad the Sun ("Medicine") River.
This river heads in the Rocky Mountains opposite to a river which also takes it’s rise in the same mountains and which running West discharges itself into a large river, which passes at no great distance from the Rocky mountains, running from N to South.
Farmers and ranchers who settled in the Sun River valley in the 1890s began impounding reservoirs and digging irrigation systems to deliver water supplies to hayfields steadily throughout the growing season.
www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2293   (900 words)

  
 Muer Seafood Restaurants - River Crab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The restaurant offers a serene view of the blue waters of the St. Clair River accented with the white sails and wakes of the pleasure boats, huge lake freighters and ocean ships, or "salties" as they are called.
Each of the 21 rooms of the inn have their own theme and name including the Georgian Bay with white wicker furniture and The Schooner furnished with a brass cannonball bed.
Each room has a splendid view of the St. Clair River and the majestic freighters, "salties" and sailing yachts that pass by daily For a relaxing get away or a corporate retreat, the Bluewater Inn provides the perfect setting.
www.muer.com /locations/rivercrab_stclair/rivercrab_stclair.html   (274 words)

  
 Dearborn County Economic - Utilities & Communications: Sewer & Water
Dearborn County offers a wide variety of utilities and communications services to its businesses and residents.
Dearborn's water comes from two major sources: the Ohio River and the Whitewater River Basin.
Dearborn County's solid waste disposal is handled by the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Cincinnati, Ohio.
www.dearborncountyedi.com /sewerwater.html   (318 words)

  
 s i x - w a y s    i n    t h e    c i t y   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Established in 1803 at the mouth of the Chicago River, Fort Dearborn was a federal military outpost that helped protect American traders in what was then the Northwest frontier of the United States.
The canal (completed in 1848) would join the Chicago River with the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, thus creating a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, and thereby shifting the center of Midwestern trade from St. Louis to Chicago.
These same commissioners platted a small grid of streets in 1830 at the junction of the north and south branches of the Chicago River, and thus the "gridded" city began, though Chicago does not official incorporate as a city until 1837.
id.iit.edu /~gabrielb/sixways/about.html   (376 words)

  
 Stream Access Law
Use of county road right-of-way to access streams and rivers is consistent with the reasonable incidental use and the public’s right to travel on county roads.
Absent definition in the easement or deed to the contrary, the width of the bridge right-of-way easement is the same as the public highway to which it is attached.
Access to streams and rivers from county roads and bridges is subject to the exercise of the County Commission’s police power.
www.montanariveraction.org /stream.access.html   (1669 words)

  
 Chapter 6: The War of 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dearborn was to move across the lake to capture Kingston and destroy the British flotilla there, then proceed to York (now Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada, to capture military stores, and finally he was to co-operate with a force from Buffalo in seizing the forts on the Canadian side of the Niagara River.
Dearborn, who was in poor health, turned over the command of the assault to Brig.
River in the vicinity of Fort Erie and, after assaulting the fort, either to move against Fort George and Newark or to seize and hold a bridge over the Chippewa River, as he saw fit.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-06.htm   (8946 words)

  
 Dearborn River Closed To Fishing Till May 20 - News - FWP
Dearborn River Closed To Fishing Till May 20
One such water body is the Dearborn River, an important Missouri River spawning tributary.
The rule applies to the entire river from its headwaters along the Continental Divide to its mouth.
fwp.mt.gov /news/article_4516.aspx   (194 words)

  
 Central Montana Rivers
The Dearborn River, a tributary of the Missouri River, with a southeast flow through secluded canyons, it is a popular destination for fly fishing and whitewater rafting.
The Milk River is the northernmost major tributary of the Missouri River, it is formed in northwestern Montana, in Glacier County by the confluence of the South and Middle forks rivers.
The Marias River, a tributary of the Missouri River, it is formed in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Glacier County, in northwestern Montana, by the confluence of the Cut Bank Creek and the Two Medicine River.
www.fortsmithmontana.com /central-montana-rivers.htm   (367 words)

  
 Montana Pictures : Dearborn River Photographs
The Dearborn River is located in central Montana and originates in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area.
The river ends at the confluence with the Missouri River.
Lower Dearborn River as it flows through the Montana prairie.
www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/Central-MT-Rivers/dearborn-river/dearborn_gallery/DearbornRiverPhotographs   (206 words)

  
 Dearborn River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dearborn River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in western Montana in the United States.
It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, near Scapegoat Mountain in the Lewis and Clark Range of the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide, in western Lewis and Clark County.
It is crossed by the Dearborn River High Bridge, which was constructed in 1897.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dearborn_River   (158 words)

  
 Missouri River Expeditions // Guided Fly Fishing on Montana's Dearborn River
The Dearborn is a tributary of the Missouri river and is a relatively small but picturesque stream that flows through the former hunting grounds of the Blackfeet indians.
The most scenic part of the Dearborn is a 19 mile float from the highway 287 bridge to it's confluence with the Missouri.
On this stretch the river twists and turns through a spectacular gorge with sheer walls and unusual rock formations alternating between sections of shallow riffles and deep pools.
www.missouririverexp.com /dearborn.htm   (199 words)

  
 Low Flow Forecasts | Montana NRCS
Last year (2005) the river reached 150 cfs between July 1 and July 2 and this year between June 20 and June 21.
Assuming average precipitation and normal management, the Dearborn River near Craig should reach 40 cfs between July 28 and August 1.
Last year (2005) the river receded to 600 cfs between July 18 and July 19 and this year July 18.
www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov /snow/watersupply/lowflow.html   (868 words)

  
 Falls Outfitters - Flyfishing streams in the Great Falls area
From the tight canyons on the Smith, Dearborn and Belt Creek, to the famous windswept lakes of the front range, to the badlands of the lower Missouri and Marias rivers, North Central Montana does hold some hidden gems for those willing to explore.
Famous for its dramatic limestone canyon, the Smith River begins near White Sulphur Springs, and flows north to its confluence with the Missouri just south of Great Falls at Ulm, Mt. The Smith holds good populations of both Brown and Rainbow trout, and good fishing can be had before and after runoff.
The state of Montana regulates float traffic on the river, and you must apply for a special permit to float this section, or use the services of an outfitter who holds a Smith permit.
www.fallsoutfitters.com /other_fisheries.htm   (859 words)

  
 Whirling Disease experts note importance of Missouri tributary
The Dearborn River is a tributary of the Missouri River.
"The low infection thus far in the Dearborn River is particularly significant given that an estimated 8,000 rainbow spawn in this tributary," the researchers wrote in a summary of the project.
Surprised by the lack of infection in the Dearborn, FWP officials have tried to protect rainbow trout in the Missouri River from future devastation.
www.montana.edu /cpa/news/nwview.php?article=818   (657 words)

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