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Fish Assemblages and Environmental Variables Associated with Hard-Rock Mining in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin, Idaho

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Pages 865-884 | Received 06 Nov 2001, Accepted 21 Feb 2002, Published online: 09 Jan 2011

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