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(100-300 cfs). It was connected to the river by a side channel in May, received some of its water from groundwater sources, and had no emergent vegetation (Appendix E; Tables E.3. and E.4.). White River. A potential (historical) of 634 acres (257 ha; 2 sites) of bottomland habitat was available adjacent to the White River (rm 0-93 [rkm 0- 37.6]) in 1993 (Appendix D; Table D.1.). Of this total, 515 acres (208 ha; 2 sites) were flooded during the May high-water flow period, and 18 acres (7 ha; 1 site) were inundated during the September low-flow period. The oxbow downstream of Highway 65 (rm 92 [rkm 148]) was inundated from May through September, whereas the confluence of the White and Green rivers (rm 0-3 [rkm 0-5]), with the greatest bottomland area, was dry in September. Both the oxbow and confluence sites were connected to the river in May and the oxbow site was connected to the river in September (Appendix E; Tables E.5. and E.6.). Both sites received some of their water from groundwater sources, but only the confluence site had emergent vegetation. The oxbow site was a flooded side-channel and the confluence site was a floodplain terrace. Colorado River. There were 110 bottomland habitat sites with a potential (historical) of 12,315 acres (4,984 ha) along the Colorado River (rm 0-241 [rkm 0-388]) in 1993 (Appendix D; Table D.2.) Of this total, 2,472 acres (1,000 ha; 101 sites) were inundated during the May and June high-water flow period and 1,135 acres (459 ha) in the September low-water flow period. There were three distinct areas where bottomland habitats were concentrated. These were usually in large floodplain areas near agricultural centers. The first area was the stream reach between Debeque and Rifle, Colorado (rm 203-240 [rkm 327-386]); 2,248 acres [910 ha]), the second was the stream reach in the Grand Valley between Loma and Palisade, Colorado (rm 152- 185 [rkm 245-298]; 4,564 acres [1,847 ha]), and the third area between the McGraw and Hotel Bottoms and the Cisco Boat Landing (rm 99-110 [rkm 159-177]; 1,214 acres [491 ha]). Moab Slough (rm 62-64 [rkm 100-103], downstream of these three areas near Moab, Utah, is the largest single bottomland area along the Colorado River encompassing approximately 875 acres (354 ha)(Figure 5). Bottomland areas in canyon-bound stream reaches of the Colorado River were typically small in acreage. These areas included Canyonlands National Park downstream of Moab, Utah (rm 61-0 [rkm 98-0]), Moab Canyon (rm 64-77 [rkm 103-124]), Hittle Bottom to McGraw Bottom (rm 88-99 [rkm 142-151]), Ruby and Horsethief canyons (rm 131-152 [rkm 211-245]), and Debeque Canyon (rm 188-204 [rkm 303-328]). Seventy-one percent (71 sites) of the 100 sites flooded in May had a hydrological connection to the river, whereas 77% (43 sites) of the 56 sites still wet in September were connected to the river (Appendix E; Tables E.7. to E.13.) Although 71 sites were inundated during May and June, 26 sites had only one surface connection to the river and 15 sites had both an up- and downstream surface connection. Twenty-one percent of the May flooded sites received some water from gravity-fed (irrigation) water sources and 56% 17