Green River Basin, Wyoming: Cooperative River Basin Study, Main Report

Excerpts from the report: The Green River Basin is that portion of the Upper Colorado River Subregion located in the State of Wyoming. It includes the Great Divide Basin, all of Wyoming drained by the Green River and its tributaries, and the Little Snake River drainage and its tributaries located in Wyoming. The Green River Basin extends north from the Wyoming-Colorado-Utah stateline about 168 miles. Roughly triangular in shape, it is about 213 miles wide at the baseline and contains about 21,049 square miles or 13,471,500 acres. An estimated 3,916 square miles are in the Great Divide Basin, a closed topographical area, east of and adjacent to the Green River Drainage. The Green River Basin includes virtually all of Sweetwater County and parts of Uinta, Teton, Lincoln, Sublette, Fremont and Carbon Counties. The purpose of this study was to define the magnitude of water and land resource problems and to suggest alternative plans for use in facilitating the coordinated and orderly conservation, utilization and management of water and related land resources of the basin. This study did not attempt to identify or quantify all of the land and water resource problems in the basin. It does, however, address important selected problems identified in the rural watershed areas for which USDA has programs for providing technical and monetary assistance toward solutions for all or part of the problem.