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pine-covered narrow canyons are straight, steep-walled, and well drained. The bedrock creek channel, strewn with boulders, averages 50 feet in width above the foothills. The foothills are a narrow transition from the mountains to the high plains. The transitional area varies from rough parallel ridges to narrow, gently sloping mesas with pine, pinion, cedar, and oak cover. The stream emerges on the high plains in Colorado Springs. South of Colorado Springs, the watershed west of the creek is in the foothills, while the eastern watershed is primarily high plains. This area to the El Paso-Pueblo County line averages a gradient of 26 feet per mile. The rolling high plains terrain is rough, broken, and sparsely vegetated. The sparse vegetation is typical of the semiarid high plains--predominantly brush, cactus and native grasses. The flood plain is comprised of narrow-strip irrigated farms, clumps of cottonwood trees, salt cedar, and other thick undergrowth. The approximate drainage area above the confluence with the Arkansas River is 917 square miles. FOr reporting purposes, the stream segment above the northern corporate boundary of Manitou Springs was labeled Upper FOuntain Creek. Cottonwood Creek, an east bank tributary of Monument Creek, origi- nates near Black Forest and has an approximate drainage area of 18 square miles above its confluence with Monument Creek. The upper reach has an approximate gradient of 193 feet per mile. The lower reach, which is flat a~d wide, has an approximate gradient of 88 feet per mile. The stream along most of its course is deeply eroded into rock outcrops and, in the lower reach, is lined with willows. Within the corporate areas, developers have confined Cottonwood Creek to a sand-bottom, riprap-sided channel. Dry Creek and its tributaries drain the Dry Creek Basin. The Dry Creek Basin is ~ounded on the west by the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, on the south and north by ridges, and on the east by ~onument Creek. It slopes from west to east toward Monument Creek, rising from an elevation of 6,250 feet to an elevation of 9,250 feet. The western portion of the basin in heavily forested, moun- tainous terrain, drained by three ~ajor tributaries of Dry Creek. The central portion of the basin is characterized by gently rolling wide valleys, separated by foothill ridges and nesas. Through the central portion of the basin, Dry Creek is poorly defined and flows through broad, gently sloping meadows. The eastern portion of the b3sin is fully developed, and Dry Creek flows through well defined and eroded channels as well as greenbelt areas (Reference 2). for t~e most part, flow in Dry Creek a~d its tributaries is intermittent. Ji~T.Y Camp Creek originates in the high plains approximately 7 niles nort~east of Colorado Springs. The watershed is ap?roximately 17 ~i1es long and averages approximately 4 miles wide. Jimmy Camp 5