The Tongue River

The Tongue separates the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Lands from the Custer National Forest.

The Big Horn, the Little Big Horn (site of Custer’s last stand), the Tongue, and the Powder drain into the Yellowstone River. This year’s flooding has been called a once per 500 year event.

Miles City is at the conjunction of the Tongue and the Yellowstone. Called “Miles” City because it is miles and miles and miles from anywhere.

Bird surveyors in the western part of the state have been flooded out of half their transects. So far, I’ve been lucky in the east.

Yellowstone Park has received 3xs the rain it usually gets in June. The park closed and 10,000 visitors evacuated.

Even the little Tongue river is engorged.