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LOWER KANE CREEK
General Description: This photopoint is found on the east side of Kane
Creek about 150-200 feet south of the Grand/San Juan County boundary. The site
is approximately 4.3 miles south of where Kane Creek drains into the Colorado
River. The view is west across a state land block.
Legal Description: NW1/4NE1/4 Section 33 T.26S., R.21E.
COMPARISON: The once wide active channel with vertical cutbanks is now
covered with riparian vegetation. New floodplains have developed, the active
channel has narrowed and the cutbanks have evolved back to lesser angles.
Channel widths here range from 15 feet at the narrowest to 60 feet at the
widest. Unfortunately, tamarisk dominates the vegetation community at this
point, but there are a fair number of native riparian species present including
Fremont cottonwood, coyote willow, and spikerush. Other than spikerush, there is
a noticeable lack of herbaceous riparian species along the channel, but such
species do appear in good numbers just a few hundred feet downstream in a more
moist stream segment. This particular stream segment, although not properly
functioning, is definitely in an upward trend.
Original:
Date: April 14, 1927 (- A)
Photographer: M.I. Goldman
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
Photograph Number: Goldman No. 334
Retake:
Date: May 13, 1999 (- B)
Photographer: Earl Hindley
Source: San Juan County
