Details About Snake River

The Snake River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, besides being one of the largest rivers in the United States, It delivers an average of 50,000 cubic feet of water into the Columbia every second, about 1/5 of the Columbia's total flow. Today, the area is starkly beautiful, with a mixture of irrigated farmland and open rangeland where beef cattle and an occasional deer graze. The construction of dams with their installed navigation locks has afforded safer and faster travel on the river for all types of vessels. Barge traffic is quite common as varied products are moved both up and down stream via the river. Many small but scenic parks dot the shoreline.Several areas have also been set aside as refuges for wildlife by the Corps of Engineers to mitigate natural habitat areas lost when water backed up behind the dams.