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330:American Whitewater River Inventory: Bottom Moose
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229:. It flows generally westwardly through
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292:Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club
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355:Rivers of Herkimer County, New York
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33:North Branch Moose River in 1973
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16:River in New York, United States
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298:List of New York rivers
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