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KNIFE RIVER

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- Amity (pre-TMDL)
- Miller
- Poplar

History

The Knife River has the North Shore's only naturalized wild steelhead trout population and is the only tributary with no natural barriers preventing fish migration. But its water quality is currently listed as “Impaired” from excessive turbidity (murkiness) due to suspended sediments and a TMDL study is in progress.

Knife River
Credit: Martin Schultz
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This river has been listed by the MPCA as impaired (turbidity).

Learn more:

Assessment of Streambank and Bluff Erosion in the Knife River Watershed

Additional information in our Reports section