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The Crowsnest River is a tributary to the
The Crowsnest River is a tributary to the Oldman River
The Oldman River is a river in southern Alberta, Canada. It flows roughly west to east from the Rocky Mountains, through the communities of Fort Macleod, Lethbridge, and on to Grassy Lake, where it joins the Bow River to form the South Saskatchew ...
in southwestern Alberta, Canada
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.
Location
From its source in Crowsnest Lake at an elevation of about in the Canadian Rockies, Crowsnest River meanders eastward through the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass andFrank Slide
The Frank Slide was a massive rockslide that buried part of the mining town of Frank in the District of Alberta of the North-West Territories,The province of Alberta was not created until September 1905, more than two years after the slide. ...
. It passes into the foothills near Burmis and reaches the western margin of the Alberta plains near Lundbreck. It then joins the Oldman River Reservoir at an elevation of about .Canada NTS Maps 82G/9 Blairmore and 82G/10 Crowsnest, 1:50:000
Fish species
The Crowsnest River is highly productive with a substantial insect population fueling a world-class sport fishery forrainbow
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows c ...
, westslope cutthroat, bull
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includin ...
, hybrid trout ("cutbow
A cutbow ('' Oncorhynchus clarkii'' × ''mykiss'') is an interspecific fertile hybrid between a rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') and a cutthroat trout (''O. clarkii''). Cutbow hybrids may occur naturally where the native ranges of both sp ...
" cutthroat and rainbow trout crosses), brown trout (below Lundbreck Falls
Lundbreck Falls is a waterfall of the Crowsnest River located in southwestern Alberta, Canada near the hamlet of Lundbreck.
It is adjacent to the Highway 3A crossing of the Crowsnest River, approximately off of the Crowsnest Highway ( Highway ...
), mountain whitefish
The mountain whitefish (''Prosopium williamsoni'') is one of the most widely distributed salmonid fish of western North America. It is found from the Mackenzie River drainage in Northwest Territories, Canada south through western Canada and ...
, and various species of suckers.
See also
*List of rivers of Alberta
Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Alberta is located immediately east of the continental divide, so no rivers from Alberta reach the Pacific Ocean.
List of r ...
References
Rivers of Alberta South Saskatchewan River Rivers of the Canadian Rockies {{Alberta-river-stub