Wind River may refer to:
Places
Canada
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Wind River (Yukon)
The Wind River is a river in Yukon, part of the Peel River watershed. It lies to the west of the Bonnet Plume and Snake Rivers.
The river is only accessible by air, or by trekking overland, or along a winter road. The river is paddled several ...
United States
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Wind River (Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska), a designated National Wild and Scenic River
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Wind River (Colorado)
Wind River is a tributary of Aspen Brook in Larimer County, Colorado. The stream flows northeast from a source in Rocky Mountain National Park to a confluence with Aspen Brook in the Roosevelt National Forest
The Roosevelt National Forest is ...
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Wind River (Oregon)
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Wind River (Washington)
The Wind River is a tributary of the Columbia River, in the U.S. state of Washington. Its entire course of lies within Skamania County. Crusattes River is an old variant name.
When Lewis and Clark passed by the river in October 29, 1805, they ...
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Wind River (Wisconsin)
The Wind River is a minor tributary of the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin in the United States. It flows for its entire lengthU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed Oc ...
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Wind River (Wyoming)
The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States. The Wind River is long. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn.
Course
Its headwaters are at Wind River Lake i ...
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Wind River Basin
The Wind River Basin or Shoshone Basin is a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming, United States. It is bounded by Laramide uplifts on all sides. On the west is the Wind River Range and on the North are the Absaroka Range and t ...
, a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming
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Wind River Canyon
Wind River Canyon is a scenic Wyoming canyon on the Wind River. It is located between the towns of Shoshoni and Thermopolis and is a popular stop for visitors to Yellowstone National Park. It is accessible by U.S. Highway 20 and Wyoming Highway ...
, a canyon made from tectonic plate shifting in Wyoming
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Wind River Formation
The Wind River Formation is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. A recent study by Stanford suggests that fracking has contaminated the entire ground water resource in the basin.
Fossil conte ...
, a geologic formation in Wyoming
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Wind River Indian Reservation
The Wind River Indian Reservation, in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, is shared by two Native American tribes, the Eastern Shoshone ( shh, Gweechoon Deka, ''meaning: "buffalo eaters"'') and the Northern Arapaho ( arp, h ...
in Wyoming
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Wind River Range
The Wind River Range (or "Winds" for short) is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the United States. The range runs roughly NW–SE for approximately . The Continental Divide follows the crest of the range and inclu ...
of Wyoming
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Wind River Peak
Wind River Peak () is the highest point in the southern end of the Wind River Range that is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak straddles the Continental Divide and is surrounded by National Forest lands. The west slopes are in the Brid ...
Films
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''Wind River'' (film), a 2017 film by Taylor Sheridan
*''Wind River'', a 2000 film about
Elijah Nicholas Wilson
Other uses
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Wind River Experimental Forest
The Wind River Experimental Forest is an ecology, ecological and silviculture, silvicultural research in Stabler, Washington, in the United States. Used as a research site by the U.S. Forest Service beginning in 1908, and functioning as an experi ...
in Washington
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Wind River Systems
Wind River Systems, also known as Wind River (trademarked as Wndrvr), is an Alameda, California–based company, subsidiary of Aptiv PLC. The company develops embedded system and cloud software consisting of real-time operating systems software, ...
, an embedded systems software company
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