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Watershed Project

imageID: 23183
Description: Watershed Project
Keywords: grasses
regeneration
flooding
overgrazed
drainage
Photographer: C. K. Cooperrider
Original collection id: 235412
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Quality: 3
Location: Tonto NF; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 11/1928
Comments: Clarksdale-Jerome smelter zone. Slip on slope into large drainage line-explosed lime conglomerate subsoil. Revegetation of grasses following correction of condtion of overgrazing. Shrub loss from SO2 gas. Note revegetation in flood plain since volume of floods have been reduced by revegetation on drainage area.
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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