2001 River Trip Collections
Between 19 and 29 June 2001, 18 aquatic sampling sites were surveyed. *
Seep and spring habitats
- 13 Mile Spring/seep (COR RM -13L, ~1mi downstream of the Glen Canyon Dam, 13 mi upstream Lee’s Ferry);
- an unnamed spring at Fence’s Fault (COR RM 30.3L);
- Vasey’s Paradise (hanging spring garden, COR RM 31.6R);
- Whale’s Armpit (four seep drip pots, COR RM 34.7R);
- seeps at Lava Well / Warm Springs, along edge of Colorado River at Lava Rapids (COR RM 179.4L);
- Beecher Spring (COR RM 183.5L).
Additional sites included
- small backwater slough of the Colorado River at Tanner Flats (COR RM 68.5R);
and eleven small to large tributary streams of the Colorado River: - Paria River (COR RM 0.8R);
- Little Colorado River (COR RM 61.3L);
- Lava Chuar Creek (COR RM 65.5R);
- Clear Creek (COR RM 84.1R);
- Bright Angel Creek (COR RM 87.7R);
- Crystal Creek (COR RM 98.1R);
- 127 Mile Creek (COR RM 126.8R);
- Tapeats Creek (COR RM 133.7R);
- 140 Mile Creek (COR RM 139.8L);
- Kanab Creek (COR RM 143.4R);
- Spring Canyon Creek (COR RM 204.4R).
* More specific locality and collecting information for each site will be provided here soon. Digital photographs of the sites also will be included.
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