Lack of adequate mountain snow is not a good thing in our neck of the woods . You being in Sheridan and The Bighorn Mountains watershed and me in Billings and The Absaroka Beartooth watershed, we share a lot of water . It all goes into the Yellowstone or Tongue Rivers at some point . We rely on mountain snowpack and no snow is not good .
And a lot of the water in the Yellowstone comes out of the Bighorn, which originates right here in the Wind River Valley. Makes me feel like we're almost neighbors.
I remember standing on the bridge over the Mississippi in St. Louis a few years ago, thinking, "The Popo Agie (the little creek that runs through my hometown) is in there!" Weird feeling.
That was what I was trying to say but I didn’t word it right . All of the water around here , yours too over there in the Winds , intermingles at different confluences and that does make us three neighbors . Did you fish that stick out for your buddy ?And a lot of the water in the Yellowstone comes out of the Bighorn, which originates right here in the Wind River Valley. Makes me feel like we're almost neighbors.
I posted same on Facebook, and one of my friends back in Wyoming responded, "Did you see that stick I threw in there?"
Well, there were a lot to choose from, so I couldn't be sure which was the right one. But I sent him some pictures.
Rivers are like that, though. All the waters of the world, except some dead-end lakes, rivers, and ponds here and there, are connected. (And I suspect even most of those dead ends are connected underground) It makes the diversity of fish species all the more amazing, even within a single drainage.
