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Kootenai River Overview

| April 19, 2013 9:18 AM

From high upon the Haul Road, the Kootenai River winds through Lincoln County above Libby. A conservation group says the river is among the country’s most endangered as a result of the run-off of selenium from open-pit coal mines from British Columbia, Canada, that flow into Lake Koocanusa.