Excerpt from the Idaho Comprehensive State Water Plan

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Protected Rivers
Stream name: Indian Creek (and North Fork)
River name: Priest River
Description: Headwaters to Priest Lake
Classification: Recreational
Stream length, in miles (unless otherwise noted): 10.5

These activities are not allowed on this stream:

• Construction of hydropower projects
• Construction of Water Diversion works
• Construction or expansion of dams or impoundments
• Dredge or Placer Mining
• Mineral or Sand and Gravel extraction within the stream bed

These activities are allowed, as specified:

Alterations of the stream bed

• Allows for alteration of the stream bed for maintenance and construction of bridges and culverts, cleaning, maintenance, and replacement of water diversion works, and installation of fisheries enhancement structures.

Special considerations:

The 1995 Plan does not identify the North Fork of Indian Creek. However, the stream extent identified by the plan includes the headwaters that are labeled on the USGS quad maps and in the Geographic Names as the North Fork.