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Cooper Creek


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  08/04/2013
North East
Colorado
USA
143
Location: Gunnison River in Curecanti NRA
 
Author(s): Larry Handley
Association: Scientist
       Latitude: 38.510288
Longitude: -107.024321
         
Wetland Category: Flats & Beaches
Description: Gunnison River channel with gravel bar. The bar is exposed and now vegetated with emergent herbaceious marsh and willow scrub-shrub. The region has had three years of reduced snowfall and lack of meltwater has resulted in Curecanti Reservoir to be down 40 feet below normal. When the reservoir is at normal full pool level, the gravel bar would be underwater and the shoreline would be the scrub-shrub.
 
Additional Site Dates:

08/04/2013
 
08/05/2014
 
08/18/2015
 
08/14/2017