Milk River (Missouri tributary)

General data

Water type: River
Progression: Missouri River -> Mississippi River -> Gulf of Mexico -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Continental, Arid (desert)
Continents: North America
Countries: Canada, United States of America

Description

Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 729 miles (1,173 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, the river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of 23,800 square miles (62,000 km2), ending just east of Fort Peck, Montana. It is formed in Glacier County in northwestern Montana, 21 miles (34 km) north of Browning, Montana, by the confluence of its South and Middle forks. The 30-mile (48 km) long South Fork and 20-mile (32 km) long Middle Fork both rise in the Rocky Mountains just east of Glacier National Park, in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Much of the water in the North Fork is diverted from the St. Mary River through a canal and inverted siphon.

Siluriformes - Catfishes

Black bullhead (Ameiurus melas)

Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

Stonecat (Noturus flavus)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)

Catches