| Selway River | |
| Map: | Selway-river-id.png |
| Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Idaho#USA |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of the Selway River in Idaho |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Idaho |
| Subdivision Type4: | County |
| Subdivision Name4: | Idaho |
| Length: | 100miles |
| Discharge1 Location: | Lowell, Idaho |
| Discharge1 Min: | 580 cuft/s |
| Discharge1 Avg: | 3,773 cuft/s |
| Discharge1 Max: | 29 573 cuft/s |
| Source1: | Southeast of Stripe Mountain |
| Source1 Location: | Bitterroot National Forest, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Bitterroot Mountains |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 45.4969°N -114.7436°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 6857feet[1] |
| Mouth: | Meets Lochsa River to form Middle Fork Clearwater River |
| Mouth Location: | Lowell, Nez Perce National Forest |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 46.1403°N -115.5994°W[2] |
| Mouth Elevation: | 1453feet |
| Basin Size: | 2013sqmi[3] |
The Selway River is a large tributary of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in the U.S. state of Idaho. It flows within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the Bitterroot National Forest, and the Nez Perce National Forest of North Central Idaho.[4] The entire length of the Selway was included by the United States Congress in 1968 as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.[5]
The main stem of the Selway is in length[6] from the headwaters in the Bitterroots to the confluence with the Lochsa near Lowell to form the Middle Fork of the Clearwater. The Selway River drains a 2013mi2 basin in Idaho County.[3]
The Selway River is home to Chinook salmon. Four salmon channels were built "in the mid-1960s by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and by the Job Corps ... along the Selway to help re-establish the spring chinook run after hydroelectric dams were built downstream." The river was stocked with salmon eggs and fry "each fall through 1981, and again in 1985."[7] A 1993 book about the project, Indian Creek Chronicles, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award.[8] [9]