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Bear River

American  

noun

  1. a river in NE Utah, SW Wyoming, and SE Idaho, flowing into the Great Salt Lake. 350 miles (565 km) long.


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To gather the advanced weather data, it erected 12 remote weather stations around the Bear River Basin, which feeds the Great Salt Lake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Covering the Wasatch, Uinta, Bear River and a few lesser mountain ranges in northern Utah, this forest is among the nation's busiest for recreation.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

"The proposed diversion of the Bear River upstream of the Great Salt Lake would be the real knife into the patient," he told Salon.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2022

In September, the board authorized funds for a pilot cloud seeding project in the Bear River Basin in southeastern Idaho this winter.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2021

I navigated the winding highway as I’d done numberless times before, racing down the Bear River Hill, coasting through the flat stretch parallel to Fivemile Creek.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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