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Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center

Welcome to the USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center, your source for water-resource data and information.

Current Wyoming-Montana Water Conditions

WY-MT Current Water Conditions

Explore Wyoming-Montana real-time streamflow, groundwater, and water-quality conditions and access data with our interactive map.

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Geospatial Research and Development to Understand Hydrologic Processes

Mean annual streamflow permanence probability in a section of the Blackfoot River Basin

Geospatial data, such as remote sensing images and map based information, provide an opportunity to evaluate hydrologic systems with a spatially continuous data set.

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USGS scientists with the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative lead field tour to share science outcomes with partners and stakeholders.

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USGS Media Alert: USGS crews continue to measure and assess Yellowstone River flood conditions and probabilities

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Environmental DNA Research Sheds Light on Invasive Species

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Predicting water quality in the Clark Fork near Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, southwestern Montana

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides a wide range of streamflow, groundwater, and water-quality data to Government, commercial, academic, and public users. The USGS has a record of success with using optical turbidity sensors to predict suspended-sediment concentrations in rivers and streams. Turbidity sensors collect backscatter signals from suspended particles in water, which can be accura
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Christopher A. Ellison
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Water Resources Mission Area, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center

Spatiotemporal variations in copper, arsenic, cadmium, and zinc concentrations in surface water, fine-grained bed sediment, and aquatic macroinvertebrates in the upper Clark Fork Basin, western Montana—A 20-year synthesis, 1996–2016

The legacy of mining-related contamination in the upper Clark Fork Basin created an extensive longitudinal gradient in metal concentrations, extending from Silver Bow Creek to Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho. Downstream metal concentrations continue to decline, but, despite such improvements, the ecological health of much of the river remains uncertain. Understanding the long-term consequences of the Cla
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Sara L. Caldwell Eldridge, Michelle I. Hornberger
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Water Resources Mission Area, Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center

Application of surrogate technology to predict real-time metallic-contaminant concentrations and loads in the Clark Fork near Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana, water years 2019–20

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (GRKO) in southwestern Montana commemorates the frontier cattle era and its formative role in shaping the culture and history of the Western United States. The ranch was designated a national historic landmark in 1960 and a unit of the National Park Service (NPS) by Congress in 1972. The GRKO is unique because of its proximity to large-scale extraction, mil
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Christopher A. Ellison, Steven K. Sando, Tom E. Cleasby
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Kootenai River Basin Dissolved Selenium Data

Water-quality sampling for selenium in the Lake Koocanusa Basin has been occurring since 1972. The USGS WY-MT WSC began a sampling program on the lake in 2018. Water-quality data are collected on the inflows to Lake Koocanusa, in the lake itself, and on the Kootenai River downstream of Libby Dam. All data are available online. Data in graphs are updated monthly to present the latest results. All...
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Kootenai River Basin Dissolved Selenium Data

Water-quality sampling for selenium in the Lake Koocanusa Basin has been occurring since 1972. The USGS WY-MT WSC began a sampling program on the lake in 2018. Water-quality data are collected on the inflows to Lake Koocanusa, in the lake itself, and on the Kootenai River downstream of Libby Dam. All data are available online. Data in graphs are updated monthly to present the latest results. All...
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Wyoming StreamStats Overview

Wyoming StreamStats is a map-based online tool that can delineate watersheds, calculate basin characteristics, and provide streamflow information for streams in Wyoming. StreamStats is a national application that is being customized to meet the needs of Wyoming state agencies, engineers, water users, recreationists, and others.
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Wyoming StreamStats Overview

Wyoming StreamStats is a map-based online tool that can delineate watersheds, calculate basin characteristics, and provide streamflow information for streams in Wyoming. StreamStats is a national application that is being customized to meet the needs of Wyoming state agencies, engineers, water users, recreationists, and others.
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Wyoming StreamStats

Wyoming StreamStats

In Wyoming, the application has the capability to delineate basins and basin-characteristic measurements in the StreamStats application.
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Wyoming StreamStats

In Wyoming, the application has the capability to delineate basins and basin-characteristic measurements in the StreamStats application.
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