The Green River Basin: A Natural History
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Western Wyoming’s Green River drains 4,000 miles of forested mountains and high desert, home to migrating wildlife, grazing cattle, a few thousand people, and in recent decades a booming natural-gas business. Since prehistoric times, people have worked to balance the basin’s resources for their own benefit — and that struggle continues today.
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The geologic setting of the Green River Formation
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John Wesley Powell: Explorer, Thinker, Scientist and Bureaucrat
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Soda Springs Basin from Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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Ethnobotanical history of the Wind River Basin
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Fremont County, Wyoming
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Nine Places to Enjoy Naturally Green Waters This St. Patrick's Day, Travel
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Wyoming State Water Plan - Green River Basin Advisory Group: Reference Notebook, Presentation
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National Parks, Science and the 1963 Leopold Report
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Big Piney and Marbleton, Wyoming
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The geologic setting of the Green River Formation
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Sava Basin ICPDR - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
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River Basin Climate & Geography, What is the River Basin? - Lesson