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Meramec River


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  10/16/2013
North East
Missouri
USA
162
Location: Meramec Caverns Park
 
Author(s): Larry Handley
Association: Government
       Latitude: 38.249530
Longitude: -91.085525
         
Wetland Category: Flats & Beaches
Description: Gravel bar formed at bend in channel. Gravel bar is constantly changing size and shape with flooding water regimes. The bar has about 60% cover of herbaceous emergent vegetation. The patch of scrub-shrub established on the bar is Sycamore. Bank and floodplain forested wetland is Sycamore, willow, American Elm, Green Ash, Silverleaf Maple, and Birch.
 
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