| imageID: | 21873 |
| Description: | landscape |
| Keywords: | landscape |
| Photographer: | B.A. Hendricks |
| Original collection id: | 266510 |
| Media: | Black and white print |
| Collection: | Sierra Ancha Historical Images |
| Quality: | 3 |
| Date(mm/dd/yyyy): | 09/17/1931 |
| Comments: | Costilla Arroyo Cuero and a tributary flow cutting back into valley floor. The characteristic topography of mesa, boulder strewn slope and deep flat bottomed alluvial vallery found through out the area formed during the Cretaceous period is shown here. Run off from flat mesa tops which have been heavily grazed is tremendous. Vegetation of valley floor is principally shrubs with alluvial soild is very susceptible to fall erosion from tributary flows and to lateral bank cutting of main arroys. A-9 Temprary run-off after a summer storm Water accumulating on valley floors. denuded alluvial soil. Concentrated flow in the arroyo reaches high velocity; it carries in the exacavated soild. eventually discharging them into the channel of some river--Rio Grande Bulletin. |
| Citation: | Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation: Olberding, Susan D.; Huebner, Daniel P.; Edminster, Carleton B. 2007. Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest historical photographs. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2007-0006 |
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