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Water temperature of the American River

Detailed Description

This graph shows temperature data collected at a stream gage on the American River. Temperatures above the orange bar are increasingly dangerous to steelhead egg incubation and parr-smolt transformation. Temperatures in excess of the red bar are increasingly dangerous to migrating juvenile steelhead.2

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Public Domain.