Talk:List of British Columbia rivers

[edit] Codes and meanings

[edit] Where does this river go?

Clearwater River (British Columbia). I can't figure out the structure. --Usgnus 06:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I know it intimately, map-wise, as I plotted a ~1 km point-line of all the rivers and lakes in BC (!!!!) for the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia; took me months, and I'm FAST. Anyway, the article says it starts at Mahood Lake - it doesn't. The latlong pinpoint of the toe of the glacier which feeds its main stream is at 52° 48' 11" N, 120° 5' 4", about 9km SSE of Mt Pierrway. As for Mahood Lake, it's drained by the Mahood River (where Mahood Falls is), which is only about 5km long and joins the Clearwater just below where the Murtle-Clearwater confluence is. I have no idea why the creator of the article described it as coming from Mahood Lake; for all I know they read a government tourism or parks brochure - which are often wildly inaccurate, being written by bureaucrats in distant towns/cities as they often are....Skookum1 07:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey! I wrote that article. :-) --Usgnus 15:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the snipe; I'm serious about bad info on govt brochures; BC Hydro's website on the Seton Lake Recreation Site claims that it's overlooked by the Chilcotin Ranges; yet there's a debate as to whether even the Camelsfoot Range are part of the Chilcotin Ranges or the Interior Plateau; such that in either case, both they and the Shulaps Range - which is in the Chilcotin Ranges - are behind the mountain overlooking the lake on the north side, Mission Ridge. Reason for this I'm guessing is that "Chilcotin" has brand recognition, while "Lillooet" itself doesn't; and such brochures are written in Burnaby by people who don't even know how to read maps. Or books, as I've often noticed on BC-govt history/tourism websites, and on crappy Digital Collections materials (those are federal money given to amateur writers). Makes it ugly when people use stuff for cites; not saying you did, just that's why I sniped.Skookum1 16:34, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

And sorry, source for the latlong given is from BC Basemap http://maps.gov.bc.ca/imf50/imf.jsp?site=bc_basemap' Instructions on how-to-use if you want another time; also try the Land and Resource Warehouse Catalogue which is on the same http://maps.gov.bc.ca page. "Find Location" is a handy tool, of course. Good clue is that viewability of river names is best in the 1:30,000 range and again in the 1:150,000 range, depending on the script/typface on each item.Skookum1 16:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I see what you were asking now; it wasn't on the tree-list on the main article; just added it, plus the Mahood, Azure and Murtle.Skookum1 16:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --Usgnus 15:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nicomekl

I made a Nicomekl River article, but I have no idea where it would fit in this list. Can someone add it in for me? Thanks. -- TheMightyQuill 22:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Added to Strait of Georgia watershed (Puget Sound is part of the Strait of Georgia). --Qyd 01:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different lists of Skeena River tributaries

There seems to be different lists with tributaries for the Skeena. First, there is the Skeena River article itself. Then there is the List of rivers of the Americas, which I populated based on the Skeena River article. Then there is the List of British Columbia rivers, which says the Skeena is the in Marcus Passage Watershed, and mentions the McNeil River as a tributary. I'm a bit skeptical of the Marcus Passage and McNeil River information. I'm comfortable that the list of tributaries in the Skeena article is correct based on the reference, but it may still be incomplete if other tribuataries don't have Chinook salmon (which was the focus of the reference information). If anyone knows how to improve and correctly align the various lists, please do so. Deet 19:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)