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Purgatory River


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  06/20/2012
South East
Colorado
USA
102
Location: County Road 751 north of Trinidad
 
Author(s): Larry Handley
Association: Government
       Latitude: 37.215173
Longitude: -104.464123
         
Wetland Category: Fresh Marsh
Description: Freshwater wetland dominated by a cattail fresh marsh, with scrub-shrub Russian Olive. Cottonwoods that once occupied most of the site are stressed and dying in the distance. Wetland seems to be the result of impounding an area between the Purgatory River and several irrigation canals on the floodplain.
 
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