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Healthy Stream Corridors (cont.) <br />Common in Colorado <br />Narrow meandering stream in a wide <br />stream corridor - Characterized by slope less <br />than 2% and a flat-bottomed vallev. <br />• Narrow, deep, sinuous chann( <br />• Little sediment load <br />• Wide flooplain <br />• Well-vegetated stream banks <br />Typical Plant Associations: <br />Sedge meadows <br />Marsh marigold meadows <br />Planeleaf willow shrublands <br />Wolfwillow shrublands <br />Low-elevation, broad valley, foothill or <br />plains stream corridor - Characterized by <br />slope less than 2% and point bars, riffles, and <br />pools. <br />• Flood flows spread over broad flood- <br />plain and riparian area <br />• Wide, shallow, sinuous channel <br />• Horizontal (lateral) erosion <br />Typical Plant Associations <br />Coyote willow <br />Hawthorn scrub <br />Silver buffaloberry shrubland <br />Cottonwood gallery forests <br />x <br />z <br />U <br />T <br />0 <br />a <br /> <br /> <br />19 <br />Willow Creek in Routt National Forest