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	The Musselshell River in Central Montana : Overview and Photos
		The Musselshell River begins at the confluence of the North and South Forks Musselshell, in a broad valley that lies north of the Crazy Mountains and to the east of White Sulphur Springs, MT.
		The river ends on the south shores of Fort Peck Lake, near the southern tip of the UL Bend Wilderness, 360 miles later.
		Overall, don't plan a visit to Montana with the Musselshell River as the primary destination for fishing, except for perhaps the excellent smallmouth bass fishing it provides near Fort Peck Lake.
	www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/Central-MT-Rivers/musselshell-river/musselshell_overview.htm (612 words)

	Musselshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Musselshell is east of Roundup on the river of the same name, which earned its title from Lewis and Clark on May 30, 1805.
		A old stockman’s landmark was the Musselshell Crossing, where herds of Texas longhorns, driven north in the 1880s, were bedded down for the last time before being fanned out in smaller herds to their ultimate Montana owners.
		The crossing was established in 1977 on the north bank of the Musselshell River opposite the present townsite.
	visitmt.com /categories/city.asp?SiteID=27&CityID=233 (369 words)

	Hall and Hall - Investment Quality Rural Real Estate Services
		Historically the North Fork of the Musselshell River was a major passage way and hunting grounds of the Plains Indians.
		The river lies at 5,000 feet in elevation while the highest point on the ranch is 5,400 feet, on the slopes of Mount Howie in the southeast quarter.
		In 2005 the Montana State Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks tested the trout population in the North Fork of the Musselshell River on the ranch.
	www.hallhall.com /property-detail.php?id=81&stid=26 (3279 words)

	In the Solitudes of the Upper Missouri
		The mouth of the Musselshell River, which was one of the notable points that marked another stage in the journey, was reached on the twentieth of May. This stream empties into the Missouri two thousand two hundred and seventy miles above its mouth, and is still known by the name given it by its discoverers.
		Leaving Judith's River, named for a sweet Virginia lass, the explorers sailed, or were towed, seventeen miles up the river, where they camped at the mouth of a bold, running river to which they gave the name of Slaughter River.
		So large and important in appearance was Maria's River that the explorers were not certain which was the main stream, that which came in from the north, or that which, flowing here in a general course from southwest to northeast, was really the true Missouri.
	www.infoplease.com /t/hist/first-across-continent/chapter9.html (4114 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		The highest flows are on the Yellowstone River near Livingston and along the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River near Belfry.
		With most of the rain out of the way, the rivers are expected to slowly shrink back to their normal size over the next two days.
		Goffena, the Musselshell Valley rancher, said the moisture was able to sink deep into the earth, where it's needed most.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/06/03/build/local/75-rivers.inc (671 words)

	Musselshell - An Endangered River
		At one time the Musselshell was one of Montana's cold water rivers with cutthroat in the upper reaches and walleye, sauger, channel cats and paddle fish in the lower river.
		The Musselshell was one of Montana's cold water rivers with cutthroat trout in the upper reaches and walleye, sauger, channel cats and paddle fish in the lower parts.
		Such was the condition of the remaining 367 miles of the Musselshell River down to the US Highway 200 bridge at Mosby, about 30 miles upstream from its confluence with the Missouri River.
	www.montanariveraction.org /musselshell.river.html (915 words)

	Hall and Hall - Investment Quality Rural Real Estate Services
		It is comprised of a beautiful variety of terrain and vegetation; from evergreen mountain slopes to willow and aspen lined banks of the north fork of the Musselshell River that meanders through the meadows.
		Historically the North Fork of the Musselshell River was a major passageway and hunting grounds of the Plains Indians.
		The ranch itself lies on the Musselshell River, but it is only a short distance to the headwaters of the Smith and Shields Rivers and Sixteen Mile Creek, all of which offer some of the finest fly-fishing in Montana.
	www.hallhall.com /ranches-for-sale/property-detail.php?id=136&sti (2902 words)

	Musselshell River - Fishing Guide - Montana FWP
		The Musselshell River begins with the headwaters of the North and South forks in the Little Belt, Castle, and Crazy mountains in central Montana.
		Vegetation adjacent to the river thins due to the arid climate, livestock grazing, and unstable and saline soils.
		However, the warmwater portion of the Musselshell supports a substantial resident fish population and provides spawning areas for sauger and channel catfish from Fort Peck Reservoir.
	fwp.mt.gov /fishing/guide/q_Musselshell_River__1078992474520_0_341.945007324219.aspx (557 words)

	The Musselshell River in Central Montana : Overview and Photos
		While the Musselshell River is not slated to become the next destination fishery for anglers on a Montana fly fishing trip anytime soon, large brown trout can be taken from the river in its far upper stretches.
		Trout fishing is basically limited on the Musselshell River to the stretch between its' origin, near Martinsdale, downstream to the Highway 191 Bridge at Harlowtown.
		Crayfish are one of the smallmouths' bass favorite food and are commonly found along the lower Musselshell River, particularly near the outlet to Fort Peck Lake.
	www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/Central-MT-Rivers/musselshell-river/musselshell_fishing.shtm (937 words)

	Char-Koosta News - Official Newspaper of the Salish and Kootenai Tribe - Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee ...
		The trips took in three areas of importance to tribal culture and history: the Musselshell River, the Upper Missouri drainage, and the Lower Clark Fork drainage (the Musselshell trip is the topic of this article).
		One band was in Helena, along the Missouri River, and into the White Sulphur Springs area and the upper Musselshell River.
		Smith says that the Musselshell was the most challenging of the aboriginal areas to research because the culture committee's archives contain no site-specific place names relating to the Musselshell.
	www.charkoosta.com /2007_06_14/Culture_committee_complete_field_research_part_one.html (1631 words)

	Montana's Missouri River Country - The Ultimate Sportsman's Paradise
		One of the greatest overland expeditions of discovery was the brain child of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States.
		It is as wide as the Missouri is at this place or 1ž2 a mile wide and not containing a single drop of runing water” They traveled 24 1ž2 miles (9 1ž2 past the Big Dry) and camped on the north side near what is now Duck Creek.
		River very crooked, banks caving in and strong winds.
	missouririver.visitmt.com /lchmapb.html (714 words)

	eStream ~ River Network's monthly e-Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Unless River Network's position is clearly indicated, stories or points of view expressed in eStream are solely those of the groups, news organizations and individuals named and not those of River Network.
		River closures, formerly a last resort, are now commonplace in the burning heat of summer.
		Under the Colorado River Impact of 1922 (explained in last month’s eStream, see eStream Archives for March 2004 at www.rivernetwork.org) the states of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are required to allow an average of 7.5 million acre-feet per year to flow past a river gauge below Lake Powell for use by California, Arizona and Nevada.
	www.rivernetwork.org /estream/estream_apr'04.htm (2952 words)

	Lower Musselshell Conservation District - Impaired Streams
		Flow in the Musselshell River showed a decreasing trend from upstream to downstream, and salt and nutrient concentrations tended to increase.
		The Musselshell River is currently on the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s list of impaired streams scheduled to have a TMDL plan in place by 2006.
		The Musselshell River Assessment Report will be a valuable tool for a restoration plan to achieve a healthy watershed community in the Musselshell Valley.
	www.lmcd.mt.nacdnet.org /impaired.html (380 words)

	Welcome to the Billings Outpost! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She manages the flow and distribution of water from the storage reservoir fed by the Musselshell known as Deadman’s Basin, built in 1941 and second only in capacity to the Tongue River Reservoir in the state-run system.
		The river that flows by their corrals of fine quarter horses was now nothing but a gravelly bed of a few pools trapping large carp.
		Meanwhile, on the now-dry Musselshell, Water Commissioner Teri Hice reminded irrigators that unless their water rights were locked in on or before Oct. 1, 1884, they cannot withdraw water.
	www.billingsnews.com /index_html?issue=94 (1500 words)

	Jedediah S. Smith
		He ascended the Missouri River that spring under Andrew Henry's command and spent his first winter on the Musselshell River.
		In the spring of 1823 Smith was sent down river to find Ashley's main group, at which time he proved his worth as a leader.
		Smith proceeded along the Virgin River to its confluence with the Colorado River, and then continued south to the Mojave villages.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/jedediahssmith.html (799 words)

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		Although comparison figures were not available for every community on the Musselshell, the summer of 2000 has furnished only a tiny fraction of the water most along its bank normally see.
		On the other end of the Musselshell River, officials in the tiny community of Melstone are imposing restrictions and growing concerned that their water supply will run dry.
		The brightest spot in southcentral Montana is the Bighorn River system, where conservative operation of Yellowtail Dam has kept water in the river and full recreation in Bighorn Lake.
	www.billingsgazette.com /region/20000822_r1river.html (948 words)

	American Conservation Real Estate The Berg Ranch - Lennep, Montana
		The country on and around the Berg Ranch is spectacular from many landscape perspectives and because it descends from mountains to foothills to prairie to river bottom it features a bountiful ecosystem teeming with an incredibly diverse array of wildlife and plant-life not often found in one area.
		Commonly seen during spring and fall migrations are mallard, Canada goose, snow goose, cinnamon teal, blue winged and green winged teal, American widgeon, northern pintail, redhead, canvasback, northern shoveler, common goldeneye, lesser scaup, grebes, coots and common merganser.
		The South Fork Musselshell country is characterized by low rainfall, warm dry summers, moderately cold winters and many sunny days with low humidity.
	www.conservationrealestate.com /Page.asp?ID=24 (2475 words)

	EPA -- Section 319 Success Stories III
		Careless Creek is a 100-mile-long tributary to the Musselshell River in central Montana.
		In 1996 the Sun River Project received a 319 grant of $198,140 to continue work on the Muddy Creek Project, complete a comprehensive resource inventory of the Sun River watershed, and enhance the water quantity and quality of the Sun River.
		The Sun River Project is known for its broad-based cooperation.
	www.epa.gov /nps/Section319III/MT.htm (1112 words)

	Golden Valley County History
		The course of the Musselshell River traverses the county in this direction.
		South of the Musselshell river much of the bench land is farmed.
		The town of Ryegate runs east and west, due to sandstone rim rock to the north and the Musseshell River to the south.
	www.co.golden-valley.mt.us /html/history.html (572 words)

	Title page for ETD etd-04282003-101336
		Glacial Lake Musselshell is the middle link in a chain of lakes that formed along the Pleistocene Laurentide ice margin in central Montana.
		A sequence of nine river terraces and >100 previously located boulders provided the opportunity to place Lake Musselshell, and the corresponding Laurentide ice margin, in the context of regional and global chronologies.
		However, the ice-rafted boulders and glacially-derived alluvium in the Musselshell basin are probably Late Wisconsin in age.
	www.montana.edu /etd/available/davis_0805.html (724 words)

	Coal To Liquid Synfuels in Montana
		Governor Schweitzer has become an active advocate of coal to liquid synfuels and a 22,000 barrel-per-day plant near Roundup on the Musselshell River.
		It is not definite where the water for the Roundup plant will come from.
		The Musselshell River is a chronically dewatered stream from irrigation and usually runs dry at the Mosby bridge.
	www.montanariveraction.org /coal-synfuels.html (418 words)

	Outdoor Life
		Instead, the strategy for spoonbills is to attach a heavy river sinker to a stout line, tie an extra-strength treble hook to the bottom, cast the works into the current and rip the rig along the bottom with quick jerks.
		The Missouri River in eastern Montana yielded the world-record spoonbill in 1973.
		The limit is one fish on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers downstream from the Fort Peck Dam and two fish on the Missouri River above the dam.
	www.outdoorlife.com /outdoor/lc/peck.html (529 words)

	Musselshell River - Fishing Guide - Montana FWP
		Musselshell River at Harlowton MT View Data
		Musselshell River at Musselshell MT View Data
		Musselshell River at Mosby MT View Data
	fwp.mt.gov /fishing/guide/q_Musselshell_River__1078992474520.aspx (557 words)

	Middle Yellowstone and Musselshell Saltcedar Management Plan
		On the Musselshell there are an estimated 24,500 tamarisks over a 240-kilometer stretch (Pearce and Smith, 2002).
		The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (MBMG) in cooperation with the Lower Musselshell Conservation District (LMCD) initiated a research project to identify impairments that are exacerbated by the presence of saltcedar.
		The goal of this project was to educate the public and increase awareness of the problems caused by saltcedar.
	www.mbmg.mtech.edu /saltcedar/saltcedar.htm (355 words)

	The Rojomo Expedition of 1996 Lewis and Clark-At the White Cliffs
		After making seven miles we reached by eleven o'clock the mouth of a large river on the south, and encamped for the day at the upper point of its junction with the Missouri.
		Opposite to the point of junction the current of the Missouri is gentle, and 220 yards in width, the bed pricipally of mud and still to deep to use the setting-pole.
		Among the game today we observed two large owls, with remarkably long feathers resembling ears on the sides of the head, which we presume are the hooting owls, though they are larger and their colors are brighter than those common in the United States.
	www.mt.net /~rojomo/landc4.htm (450 words)

	Musselshell County, Montana MT, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Musselshell County is one of 56 counties in Montana.
		This was an increase of.40% from the 2000 census.
		Musselshell County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22333 (387 words)

	Headwaters & Highcountry Outfitters
		We are located in Musselshell, Montana, in the eastern-central part of the state.
		It is an area along the Musselshell River in a small mountain range called the Bull Mountains.
		The country is basically made up of river bottoms that are cultivated farm land that runs uphill into sandstone rimrocks and timbered draws and canyons.
	www.headwatershighcountry.net (970 words)

	Nez Perce NHP: Nez Perce Summer, 1877 (Chapter 10)
		There the scouts came on a recently vacated camp of River Crows with several dead inhabitants lying around; according to Redington, it was the village of Dumb Bull, upon which the Nez Perces had taken vengeance on September 21 by attacking, wrecking their property, taking their dried meat, and running off their ponies.
		The width of the river to include the islands was approximately twenty-two hundred feet, although the navigable channel spanned only about five hundred feet.
		Across from the island proper, on the north bank of the river and west of the mouth of Cow Creek, stood Cow Island Landing, where steamboat cargoes were unloaded to await delivery upstream by freight wagons to Fort Benton for military and commercial use.
	www.nps.gov /archive/nepe/greene/chap10.htm (1840 words)

	S K Realty- Montana Land and Ranch Real Estate
		Overlooking the Headwaters of the Missouri River, this 502+/- ac property is the current headquarters of the largest horse outfitter in the region “Montana Horses”.
		J Diamonds’ 200+/- acres are surrounded by private access to thousands of acres of public lands and waters in the Bridger National Forest, where miles of horseback and hiking trails await.
		DragonFly Outpost~Musselshell River: This 1244+/- Acre property is situated on the Rosebud County/Petroleum County line with the Musselshell River the dividing line between the two counties.
	www.ranch4you.com /index.htm (1954 words)

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