Uinta Watershed

• Has many lakes, rivers, and streams.
• Ashley National Forest: established 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It has an area of 2,160 sqaure miles.
• Ute and Ouray Indian Reservation: second-largest Indian reservation in the US with an area of 6,796 square miles.
• Kings Peak is the highest peak in the state at an elevation of 13,528. It is located in the north-central Duchesne County in the Uinta mountains.

Flaming Gorge Reservoir

• Flaming Gorge Reservoir spans the Utah-Wyoming border.
  
• Created in 1964, the reservoir dams the Green River and has a storage capacity of 3,788,900 acre feet of water.
  
• It has a surface area of 65.66 square miles.
  
• Lake trout, Burbot, Rainbow trout, Brown trout, Cutthroat trout, Smallmouth bass, Sockeye salmon, carp, and Cutbow are some of the fish that are found in the reservoir.
  
• The Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is a popular place for camping, hiking, boating, and fishing.

Green River

• The Green River begins in the Wind River Range in Wyoming and flows a distance of 730 miles where is empties into the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park.
• It is a popluar river for fishing and for rafting.

Sub-Watersheds

• Strawberry
• Duchesne
• Lower Green-Desolation Canyon
• Lower White (western half)
• Lower Green-Diamond
• Willow
• Ashley-Brush
• Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir (southern portion)
• Blacks Fork (southern portion)

Counties in this Watershed

• Uintah 
• Duchesne
• Daggett
• Summit
• Carbon 
• Wasatch 
• Grand