Yellowtail Dam is a dam across the Bighorn River in south central Montana in the United States. The mid-1960s era concrete arch dam serves to regulate the flow of the Bighorn for irrigation purposes and to generate hydroelectric power. The dam and its reservoir, Bighorn Lake, are owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The project was the result of negotiations between the federal government and the Crow Nation, the tribe of Native Americans that lived on the surrounding Crow Indian Reservation, and was originally envisioned as a shared facility that would provide profits for both sides. Eventually, the land was sold to Reclamation, although much of the reservoir, which extends 72 miles (116 km) upstream into Wyoming, lies in the reservation. The dam was authorized in 1944 and groundbreaking was in 1961; it was completed in 1967 after six years of construction.
Today aside from its original purposes the dam serves for recreation both above and below the structure. Regulation of the Bighorn provided by the Yellowtail Dam has transformed the lower river into one of Montana's premier trout streams. However, there has been significant controversy surrounding the allocation of water in the reservoir between Montana and Wyoming, and the ecological damage wrought on 184 miles (296 km) of river both above and below the dam.
YellowtailDam is a dam across the Bighorn River in south central Montana in the United States. The mid-1960s era concrete arch dam serves to regulate...
of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the YellowtailDam by the Bureau of Reclamation. It is one of over 420 sites managed by...
Bighorn Lake is a reservoir behind YellowtailDam within the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, located in northern Wyoming and extending into southern...
the Bighorn Mountains, through the Crow Indian Reservation, where the YellowtailDam forms the Bighorn Lake reservoir. The reservoir and the surrounding...
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tribe after a divisive fight. In a final irony, YellowtailDam was named after Yellowtail. Yellowtail continued to fight for compensation for the Crow...
that the blue ribbon trout fishery on the Big Horn River, below the YellowtailDam, is fished by non-Indians (provided the non-member complies with Montana...
three highways intersect S-313 and MT 47. S-313 provides access to YellowtailDam, while MT 47 connects back to I-94. After exiting Hardin, I-90 turns...
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between the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), which had built Hoover Dam, and the National Park Service (NPS), which had experience in managing visitors...
border Bighorn River - from YellowtailDam to its confluence with the Yellowstone River Tongue River - from Tongue River Dam to its confluence with the...
flooding. Flooding has been reduced since the building upstream of YellowtailDam, completed in 1967, but high waters have occurred since, including notably...
headgate structure is intermittently inundated by water held in the YellowtailDam Afterbay reservoir. The Bighorn Ditch was instrumental to the Crow changing...
northernmost part of the 1868 reservation. Crow chief Plenty Coups, Robert Yellowtail and others stopped efforts to open the reservation in 1917. In a hotel...
eaten by Long-nosed fur seals. Yellowtail kingfish are also known to eat cephalopods. This has raised concerns about Yellowtail kingfish escapees from commercial...
"olive beef" and "olive yellowtail". Waste organic matter from olive pressing is used as feed for cattle and the Yellowtail Amberjack. Due to the high...
killed in the US than in the Dominican Republic". CNN. 25 June 2019. "Yellowtail Snapper - Ocyurus chrysurus - Snappers - - Tropical Reefs". reefguide...
Lake Elwell on the Marias River; Clark Canyon on the Beaverhead River; Yellowtail on the Bighorn River, Canyon Ferry, Hauser, Holter, Rainbow; and Black...
Because of the dams and restricted flows to the Gulf of California, the range in Arizona is restricted to the Colorado River below Laguna Dam and the lower...
part of the range, semidesert prairie is cut by steep canyons leading to Yellowtail Reservoir, and high, Douglas-fir cloaked ridges top out at over 9,000'...
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