North Fork Snoqualmie River

The North Fork Snoqualmie River flows through a roughly 26-mile (42 km) course through the Cascade Range of Western Washington, United States. It originates as an alpine stream draining Lake Kanim, flowing northwest and then southwest through many rapids. It turns west again before arcing southward through a valley, as the river channel widens and becomes braided. It enters another set of rapids as it passes through Black Canyon further southwest. It converges with the Middle Fork and then the South Fork near the town of North Bend, Washington, forming the mainstem Snoqualmie River, which ultimately forms the Snohomish River and empties into Puget Sound.
The valley of the North Fork Snoqualmie was scoured by glacial ice during the Last Glacial Maximum, which forced embankments which altered its course. The river hosts salmonids such as cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, and brook trout, but access by migratory fish is blocked by the presence of Snoqualmie Falls on the mainstem. The water quality of the North Fork is high, although portions can reach high temperatures in the summer.
The Snoqualmie watershed is within the traditional territory of the Snoqualmie people, who used the upland portions of the North Fork watershed to hunt mountain goats. Euro-American settlement in the region began in the 1850s, and by the end of the century a logging industry had emerged in North Bend, which used timberland in the North Fork watershed. After an environmental dispute around a proposed dam on the Middle Fork during the 1970s, the North Fork was put forward as an alternative site, before the city of Bellevue's proposal to build the dam were rejected in the 1980s. Most of the basin consists of timberland, with much of the upper watershed within the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest. Rural residential areas occupy parts of the lower watershed.

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