Red River (Kentucky River tributary)
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The Red River is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] tributary of the Kentucky River in east-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". east of Campton. It flows generally west, through Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, then past Stanton and Clay City. It joins the Kentucky approximately Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Winchester.
In 1993, a Script error: No such module "convert". stretch of the river in the Red River Gorge was designated by the federal government as a National Wild and Scenic River.
The book The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry was written to deter the Army Corps of Engineers from damming the Red River Gorge in 1971.
Recreation
The largest golden redhorse ever taken in Kentucky (4 lbs., 5 oz.) was taken in the Red River.[2]
See also
References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 13, 2011
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External links
- The Red River Gorge TodayTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- U.S. Forest Service: Red River Gorge
- The Red River Saga
- RRS: Red River Gorge Biodiversity
- Arches of the Red River Gorge
- Red River Gorge Geologic Area
- Wild and Scenic Red River
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