Site Details - Calling All Wetlands
 
McKinney Spring


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  10/13/2014
North East
Texas
USA
217
Location: Big Bend National Park
 
Author(s): Larry Handley
Association: Scientist
       Latitude: 29.408319
Longitude: -103.087788
         
Wetland Category: Streambed
Description: Streambed within a larger intermittent wash. Water in streambed is from a small spring that is fed by gravity flow from hills to the south of the wash. Flow in early fall is low, but is valuable oasis in desert for wildlife. Cottonwood trees and sandbar willow grow on floodplain of the wash.
 
Additional Site Dates:

10/13/2014
 
04/04/2017