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North Platte River Basin <br />Casper WYoming ? <br />I Nebraska <br />Alcova Res. Glendo Res. _ <br />Pathfinder Res. <br />Seminoe Res. <br />Sinclair <br />Noith P/atte <br />River <br />Colorado <br />Grayrocks R " <br />• Scottsbluff <br />ri-wheatland i Lake McConaughy <br />? laramie ? <br />? River ' <br />Ogallala <br />-----1----- <br />South P/atte <br />River <br />North Platte <br />Julesburg <br />? <br />? <br />I <br />? Not to Scale <br />?------- <br />Figure 7 North Platte River Basin <br />therefore, 1987. The re-licensing discourse that began years earlier was an obvious place to insert <br />the new environmental agendas that had come with passage of the Endangered Species Act of <br />1973. The two districts were squarely in the federal nexus. <br />Wyoming <br />The North Platte river originates in north central Colorado near the continental divide and <br />flows through Northgate Canyon into Wyoming. The stream continues in a northerly direction <br />into central Wyoming and bends east near Casper and then southeast into western Nebraska where <br />it filis Lake McConaughy (Figure 6). Major tributaries are the Encampment, the Medicine Bow, <br />and the Laramie Rivers, which are fed by snowmelt. <br />The stream is one of the most highly utilized in the West. Furthertnore, the federal <br />government owns over half of the land in Wyoming, and most of state's water resources are either <br />on federal land, adjacent to it, or dependent upon it. Wyoming's water use has been dramatically <br />impacted by the passage of the ESA and by a negotiated settlement with Nebraska over the uses of <br />Wyoming's North Platte basin waters. <br />26