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Historical Clippings Book (HC-04) (198 pages)
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Page: of 198
Bin —
Bidwell Bridge was closed to auto traffic
in 1954, but you can still walle across it
“A fool can *larve to death in the F, eather
River Country, but no one can dic of
thirst.”
That's how an old Mountain man some 15
years ago summed up the region that is
Now the site of the largest Water diversion
Project in the West's history, Indeed, here
Water abounds, From high mountain
springs that Virtually cover the hillsides,
it flows into creeks and streams and riyers that follow their ABC-old courses into
the three Main forks of the Feather, from
the lower Feather to the Sacramento, and
finally to the Sea,
Water made the Feather River Country
rich: nourished the forests, Washed the
bold from the high colnitry, kept the canYous filled with sweet birch, chaparral,
and the lush flora that fed. the deer,
beaver, quail, dove, and Brouse, Along the
banks lived fisher and mink; bear, coyote,
and pine marten roamed the hillsides, And
in the streams swam trout, salmon and
steclhead,
Today Most of the big trees have been
NOVEMnER 19638
canyons for about
Ost of the Salimon-s
» When it fills in 1968, wil] cover ]
RNIA
a
CALIFO,
pme and fir forests,
enlarged on Page 2?
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