Bear River (Utah)
Lake in the headwaters of the Bear River
Catchment area of the Bear River
The Bear River ( English for " Bear River ") is a 563 km long river in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho and northern Utah in the United States.
The lake is the largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake. The river drains the mountains east of the lake and the farm land in the valleys between them and southwest of the Snake River Plain.
Description
The river resembles an inverted U large, that wraps around the northern end of the Wasatch Range. The Bear River rises in northeastern Utah in several short arms on the north flank of up to 4100 m high Uinta Mountains to the south of Summit County. It flows to the north and cuts through the southwest corner of Wyoming in Evanston. Then the river meanders its way further north along the border between Utah and Wyoming. He then turns to the northwest into Franklin County and flows through the Bear Lake Valley. He happened to Montpelier, where the short Bear Lake Outlet flows, which drains the Bear Lake. In Soda Springs at the northern end of the Wasatch Range of the Bear River swung in a left turn abruptly to the south. They go to Preston over a wide Cache Valley, which stretches from Logan northward. The flow returns to the south of Preston back to Utah back and meanders past Cornish and Newton. By damming the river forms the Cutler reservoir where discharges from the south of the Little Bear River. From the western end of the dam, the river flows south through the Bear River Valley, passing Bear River City. Before the Bear River flows into the muddy shallow water of an extensive bay on the east side of the Great Salt Lake, about 15 km south-west of Brigham City, flows from the north nor the Malad River.
The river is utilized in the fertile valleys, through which it flows in its lower reaches in Idaho and Utah for irrigation. The last 15 km before it flows into a small river delta are protected and form the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.
History
At the beginning of the 19th century Canyon of the Shoshone tribe was settled. Trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company started from 1812 onwards, the area to explore. They came across the Snake River to the south. In the late 1840s, the valley was the destination for pioneers Mormons. On January 29, 1863 attacked troops of the United States Army a winter village of Shoshones in Cache Valley, killing many of its inhabitants. This massacre became known as the Battle at Bear River.