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Collawash River

River in Mt. Hood NF, Bull of the Woods Wilderness, Cascade Range near Jawbone Flats, OR

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The Collawash River is a 12-mile (19 km) tributary of the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Formed by the confluence of Elk Lake Creek and the East Fork Collawash River in the Cascade Range, it flows generally north-northwest from source to mouth through the Mount Hood National Forest. The largest tributary of the upper Clackamas, it provides about a third of bigger river's low-flow volume. About 35 percent of its watershed of 150 square miles (390 km2) is protected as wilderness. Fish habitat in the watershed is rated good to excellent. Catch-and-release fishing for trout is allowed on the main stem and the Hot Springs Fork tributary, but the streams are closed to fishing for salmon and steelhead. For whitewater runners, the river is considered as two or three sections which…

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