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[[File:Saline Bayou (Winn-Natchitoches Parish, LA) IMG 7496 1.jpg|thumb|right|Saline Bayou in Winn-Natchitoches Parish]]
[[File:Saline Bayou (Winn-Natchitoches Parish, LA) IMG 7496 1.jpg||thumb|right|Saline Bayou in Winn-Natchitoches Parish]]
'''Saline Bayou''' is a 100-mile<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed June 3, 2011</ref> tributary of the Red River in [[Louisiana]]. In 1986, it became the first blackwater [[river]] in the American South to have been designated in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. It is located within the Kisatchie National Forest of southwest Louisiana.<ref name=saline>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VvoqyGx7PRQC&pg=RA2-PA166&lpg=RA2-PA166&dq=Saline+Bayou&source=bl&ots=ddnaGrgZ6l&sig=PWa6Y2vSKaYW4oQs-a-2aDXRD5E&hl=en&ei=ao-ZSqHGLIL8tgfe3vnIBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=Saline%20Bayou&f=false|author=Tim Palmer|title=The Wild and Scenic Rivers of America|date=1993|page= 186|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=August 29, 2009}}</ref>
'''Saline Bayou''' is a 100-mile<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed June 3, 2011</ref> tributary of the Red River in [[Louisiana]]. In 1986, it became the first blackwater [[river]] in the American South to have been designated in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. It is located within the Kisatchie National Forest of southwest Louisiana.<ref name=saline>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VvoqyGx7PRQC&pg=RA2-PA166&lpg=RA2-PA166&dq=Saline+Bayou&source=bl&ots=ddnaGrgZ6l&sig=PWa6Y2vSKaYW4oQs-a-2aDXRD5E&hl=en&ei=ao-ZSqHGLIL8tgfe3vnIBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=Saline%20Bayou&f=false|author=Tim Palmer|title=The Wild and Scenic Rivers of America|date=1993|page= 186|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=August 29, 2009}}</ref>