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  Little River Inn and restaurant guide for the Mendocino Coast
Little River is best known for its warm hospitality, wide-open spaces and majestic natural beauty.
The beach is popular with divers and kayakers, while ten miles of trails along the fern-carpeted canyon of Little River is perfect for strolling and bicycling.
Charles fondly remembered the beach at Little River as a favorite picnic spot of his youth, and he eventually returned to purchase 40 acres of this land.
www.mendocino.com /littleriver.html   (419 words)

  
  White River (South Dakota) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The White River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 507 mi (816 km) long, in the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota.
It rises in northwestern Nebraska, in the Pine Ridge plateau north of Harrison, at an altitude of 4,800 ft (1,463 m).
It receives the Little White River approximately 15 mi (24 km) south of Murdo, and flows E and to join the Missouri in Lake Francis Case approximately 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Chamberlain.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /White_River_%28South_Dakota%29   (194 words)

  
 White River (South Dakota) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 507 mi (816 km) long, in the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota.
It rises in northwestern Nebraska, in the Pine Ridge escarpment north of Harrison, at an altitude of 4,800 ft (1,463 m).
It receives the Little White River approximately 15 mi (25 km) south of Murdo, and flows E and to join the Missouri in Lake Francis Case approximately 15 mi (25 km) southwest of Chamberlain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_River_(South_Dakota)   (220 words)

  
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The available river habitat between the upper extent of Drano Lake’s slack water and the waterfall on the Little White Salmon River is approximately 500 feet.
Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery was built in 1898 and is one of the oldest on the Columbia River system.
Juvenile coho are released at the Willard hatchery for downstream dispersion.
www.nwcouncil.org /library/recommend/little_white_salmon_trp.doc   (1947 words)

  
 Seeing The Light - White River Lighthouse   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1866, the pressure being applied by the Michiganders was felt, and Congress appropriated $67,000 for the construction of a new channel between White Lake and Lake Michigan, and $10,000 for the construction of a lighthouse at the harbor entry.
The square white pyramidal tower was of wooden construction, and stood 27 feet in height.
William Robinson became the first keeper of the beacon light in 1872, and that same year the Lighthouse Board requested that the sum of $4,000 be appropriated for the construction of a keeper's dwelling on the shore near the pierhead light.
www.terrypepper.com /lights/michigan/whitehall/whitehall.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Greers Ferry Lake & Little Red River Region :: Vacation & Recreational Information
This is one of the few places in the country where it’s possible to fish for largemouth bass, white bass hybrids, walleye and trout all in the same day.
The Greers Ferry Lake and Little Red River area is also a place that you will want to check out if you’re planning to retire or relocate your family in the near future.
White County is almost equally divided between Ozark foothills and White River bottomland.
greersferrylake.org   (521 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adults return to the Little White Salmon Hatchery where eggs are taken; incubation, rearing, and release occur at Willard.
River water temperature usually averages about 42.5 F while well temperature is 41 F. Ã××HarvestÄ Ä×× Á ÁA coho sport fishery occurs in Drano Lake; harvest averaged 31 jacks and 158 adults, a harvest rate of 1.8 percent (Table 11).
Little White Salmon coho are primarily harvested in the ocean and Columbia River by commercial and sport fisheries; total harvest rate approaches 80 percent.
www.streamnet.org /subbasin/Lwsalmon.doc   (2696 words)

  
 Little White River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Little White River (formerly known as the South Fork of the White River) is a tributary of the White River, approximately 135 mi (217 km) long, in south central South Dakota in the United States.
It flows into the Rosebud Indian Reservation and turns northeast, passing north of Rosebud and east of the town of White River.
It joins the White approximately 12 mi (19 km) SSE of Murdo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_White_River   (128 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark's Columbia River - Little White Salmon River, Washington
The Little White Salmon River is located appoximately 5 miles downstream of the White Salmon River, and can be reached off of Washington State Highway 14, seven miles east of Carson, Washington.
The geology of the Little White Salmon watershed is dominated by past volcanic activity, with soils being the result of volcanism and glaciation.
The mainstem of the Little White Salmon River drops 3,520 feet in 19 miles for an average gradient of 3.5 percent.
www.iinet.com /~englishriver/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Regions/Places/little_white_salmon_river.html   (1341 words)

  
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The average discharge of the Little White River is about 56 cubic feet per second as the river enters Todd County and is about 131 cubic feet per second as it discharges to the White River in northern Mellette County.
The White River aquifer, where present, is usually the shallowest source of ground water in Mellette County.
The White River aquifer also is used in northern Todd County where the Ogallala and Arikaree aquifers are not present.
sd.water.usgs.gov /pubs/abstracts/wri98-4146.html   (673 words)

  
 White River well worth the short drive for a little fishing
With the South Plains region receiving more than 9.25 inches of rain since the first of the year, both flora and fauna are thriving throughout the area, and the zigzagging drive east along FM 40 to White River is an excellent way to see just what a little rain can do for our region.
However, not having been to White River in more than 1« years, I didn't really know what to expect of the lake.
However, according to officials at the White River Municipal Water District, water pumping at the lake contributes very little to drops in the lake's level.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/051897/white.htm   (688 words)

  
 Canadian Canoe Routes - A Meeting Place for Canadian Wilderness Paddlers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Six kilometers south of where the Boland River enters the Little White marks the start of a series of rapids inter-spaced with calm stretches of water and ends at a waterfall 6 km downstream.
There is a cabin on the side of the highway which marks the beginning of the white water section, during low water most of this part of the river is too low to paddle and must be portaged around.
The river and highway part approximately 19 km south of here and the river swings to the right, this is the last place you can pull out of the river until you arrive at Bells Falls and Highway 554, another 20 km downstream.
www.myccr.com /canoedb/routeDetails.php?routeid=158   (766 words)

  
 History of Marion Co,AR - WB FLippin
On the bank of White river at the ford of the river, a small distance below where Tolbert's ferry is located in early times stood a small log chain surrounded by a rail fence in which the calf of the cow that gave mild for the family was kept.
A bear came to the bank of the river on the opposite side and hearing the baby crying plunged into the river (a bear is a good swimmer and don't stop for a water course large or small) and swam across and made straight for the house where the child was crying.
The bank of the river was soon lined with anxious lookers on to see the performance, some telling the high sheriff that he would drown, but Mitchell was in the highth of his glory, he was about to play one of his master jokes, and his reputation depended on its success.
www.rootsweb.com /~armarion/stories/wbflippin.html   (17073 words)

  
 Little Red River   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The condition of the river is dependent upon generation periods of the powerhouse at the dam.
The Little Red is among the real blue-ribbon trout streams of America and takes her place alongside the White as one of the best in the South.
The Little Red is also one of Arkansas's most popular flyfishing streams and the many shoals exposed during low water periods offer ideal locations to hook a hefty trout on a variety of fly patterns.
www.jacksonslakeshoreresort.com /id7.html   (1196 words)

  
 Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Wind River, Little White Salmon River, White Salmon River, and the Klickitat River sub-basins were analyzed.
We snorkel surveyed more than 74 km (46.25 mi.) of rivers and streams in the four sub-basins (13.8 km at night and 60.2 km during the day) and found that night snorkeling was superior to day snorkeling for locating bull trout.
Additional surveys are needed in the West Fork Klickitat and mainstem Klickitat to determine the distribution of bull trout throughout the drainage and to determine the extent of hybridization with brook trout.
www.osti.gov /bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=791688   (437 words)

  
 Watershed, White River, Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The White River originates in northwest Arkansas, southeast of Fayetteville, in the Boston Mountains.
The White River is impounded as Lake Sequoyah and by Beaver Dam before entering Missouri near Eagle Rock in Barry County.
The White River then flows southeast from Bull Shoals Dam, where it exits the Ozark Plateau, turns south into the delta region of Arkansas, and continues to its confluence with the Mississippi River, some 720 miles from its origin.
www.conservation.state.mo.us /fish/watershed/whriver/contents/390cotxt.htm   (1107 words)

  
 Recreation.gov   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery was a pioneer in the fledgling science of salmon propagation when it began rearing salmon in 1896.
The Little White Salmon River provides the cold, clean source of river water in which salmon are incubated and raised for 6 to 18 months.
Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery is located 12.5 miles east of Stevenson, Washington, on State Highway 14.
www.recreation.gov /detail.cfm?ID=(3839)   (212 words)

  
 The Little White Salmon River
Jurgen Nickles (pictured here at the put-in) travel from around the world to paddle in the Northwest, and the Little White is usually one of their first stops.
The Little White is fed by an enormous aquifer that stores rain all winter and then slowly releases it late into the summer, making this a world class playground for class V paddlers when almost everything else is bone dry.
The Little White has some nice scenery and the stunning aquamarine water has to be seen to be believed.
www.oregonkayaking.net /creeks/littlewhite/littlewhite.html   (2985 words)

  
 Let's Go Fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This river is located at the west end of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.
There are two fish hatcheries nearby: Little White Salmon and Willard National.
This river is near Northwestern Lake and Picnic Area.
www.fs.fed.us /r6/fishing/forests/gofishing/colriv_streams.html   (334 words)

  
 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District - PER Division   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The White River Minimum Flow Study is examining both good and bad impacts that could result from reallocating storage in Beaver, Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Norfork and Greers Ferry lakes to maintain minimum flows to improve trout fishing on the White, North Fork, and Little Red rivers.
The amount of storage reallocation under study is 1.5 feet in Beaver Lake, 2 feet in Table Rock Lake, 3.5 feet in Norfork Lake, 5 feet in Bull Shoals Lake and 3 feet in Greers Ferry Lake.
Issues that were considered in the study are flood control, hydropower, water supply, fish and wildlife, and recreation in each lake and in each river downstream.
www.swl.usace.army.mil /planning/wrminflows.html   (592 words)

  
 Columbia Land Trust: In The News
The land, in western Klickitat County in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, will be managed as the Little White Salmon Biodiversity Reserve.
As a condition of the grant, Pacific Power, a Portland-based utility, agreed to exchange 120 adjacent acres east of the Little White Salmon for property of equal value, preferably in the Lewis River basin.
Pacific Power owns Condit Dam on the White Salmon River to the east and has agreed to remove the dam rather than pay the cost of reconstructing it to allow fish passage.
www.columbialandtrust.org /news/stories/co001008.htm   (338 words)

  
 Marion Co AR History- WR Jones
The freight which came up White river to Buffalo was then hauled over this very poor road to Carrollton, and from there all the pioneers in Northwest Arkansas were supplied.
These received but little for their preaching, but as they were staking all on the future, they seemed a happy and contented lot of men.
That, so far as the Cherokees along upper White river were concerned, they should have, at expense of the government, a road over which they could convey their effects, as well as families.
www.rootsweb.com /~armarion/stories/wrjones.html   (17021 words)

  
 American Whitewater - River Reach #2156   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Little White Salmon, WA Willard to Columbia River
This section of the Little White Salmon is actually two separate runs.
The stretch of Little White from the "town" of Willard to the fish hatchery is referred to as the Upper Little White.
www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/2156   (278 words)

  
 White River White River, South Dakota (Cities)
White River is located in Mellette County (of which it is the county seat), in Black Hills, Badlands & Lakes Region.
It sits right on the Little White river, at the junction of US 83 and Hwy 44.
The population estimate for July 1, 1998 was 554, a decrease of 41 since 1990.
www.ohwy.com /sd/w/whiteriv.htm   (94 words)

  
 Amazon.com: White River (1999): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In White River, Bob Hoskins (of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mona Lisa) plays Brother Edgar, a con man in monastic garb, who pretends to be the spiritual leader of the Little Brothers of St. Mortimer, a Christian association devoted to blind youths.
Their modest but comfortable scam is interrupted when they are hijacked by a young psychopath called the White River Kid (Wes Bentley of American Beauty) and his girlfriend Apple Lisa Weed (Kim Dickens of Hollow Man), who force Brother Edgar to drive them to Apple Lisa's home town to meet her parents.
White River was adapted from a book and suffers from trying to squeeze too much of a novel into the tighter confines of a film, but the remarkable cast (which also includes Beau Bridges, Swoozie Kurtz, and Randy Travis) make the most of their outrageously comic Southern gothic characters.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NKSK?v=glance   (1653 words)

  
 FPC Hatchery Web
Carson National Fish National Fish Hatchery - at the confluence of Tyee Creek and the Wind River, 14 miles north of the Columbia River, about 60 miles east of Vancouver, Washington.
Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery - is located 12.5 miles east of Stevenson, Washington, on State Highway 14.
Salmon Camera at USFWS Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery.
www.fpc.org /hatchery/hatchery_links.html   (150 words)

  
 Columbia Land Trust: Trust Talk, v7n3, Fall 2000
The Little White Salmon River watershed is located in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and flows to Drano Lake and the Columbia River.
The acquisition of these seven parcels bolsters the Cold Spring Conservancy's mission to create a Little White Salmon River Biodiversity Reserve and a research and education center to promote the art and science of sustainable watershed management.
Cold Spring Conservancy is working with owners of adjacent properties in the Little White Salmon River watershed to acquire another 250-acres of old growth and late-successional forest and riparian area for the Biodiversity Reserve.
www.columbialandtrust.org /news/letters/v7n3TrustTalk.htm   (1744 words)

  
 Little White Salmon River, Washington, white water, Willard to Columbia River
The Willard to Columbia River section of Little White Salmon River in Washington is 5.5 miles long and is a class IV-V+ stretch of white water according to the American Whitewater Assosciation.
This stretch of Little White Salmon River, Washington has an average gradient of 217 fpm.
Little White Salmon River, Willard to Columbia River is not the easiest place to go paddling, this part of the river is good for those with a great deal of whitewater experience, if you are a beginner you should probably look for a different strectch of whitewater to paddle.
www.riverfacts.com /rivers/13749.html   (1080 words)

  
 USGS NAWQA, White River - Great and Little Miami River Basin Study Unit, Indiana and Ohio
The White River Basin (WHIT) Study Unit in southern Indiana and the Great Miami and Little Miami River Basins (MIAM) Study Unit in southwestern Ohio and southeastern Indiana were part of NAWQA's Cycle I (1991-2000) investigations.
Intensive investigations of the quality of water resources in the Study Unit were done to establish existing water-quality conditions of streams and aquifers.
Long-term goals remain the same as those of Cycle I. Emphasis, however, will shift from the status of water quality to trends in water quality and the understanding of natural and human factors that affect water quality.
in.water.usgs.gov /NAWQAWHMI   (308 words)

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