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12 <br />PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT <br />Stream Invento --Stream mileages were determined from 2" e- <br />quals 1 mile planimetric maps based upon aerial photography, and supple- <br />mented by reports of field personnel. Of the 81 miles of fishing stream <br />in the project area, nearly 70 percent are on public lands in the White <br />River National Forest (Table 1), <br />Table 1,--MILES OF FISHING STREAMS ON NATIONAL FOREST LAND AND PRIVATELY <br />OWNED LAND IN THE DRAINAGES OF SWEETWATER CREEK AND SOUTH FORK <br />OF-THE WHITE RIVER. <br />Mileage <br />National Privately <br />Stream Forest Land Owned Land <br />Main Sweetwater below lake 0,0 10.0 <br />Main Sweetwater above lake ,5,g 0.7 <br />Dry Sweetwater 3.8 0,0 <br />Turret Creek 7.7 0,2 <br />Main S. Fk, White River above• <br />dam site 9.9 0.0 <br />Main S, Fk, White River below <br />dam site 12.7 13.8 <br />Buck Creek 5,3 0,0 <br />Wagonwheel Creek 1.7 0,0 <br />Patterson Creek 3.0 0.0 <br />Park Creek 1,8 0.0 <br />Lost Solar Creek 4.5 0,1 <br /> 56.3 24 8 <br />Stream gradients on the Sweetwater and South Fork are typical <br />of mountain streams ranging from less than one percent through meadows to <br />seven percent or more below the volcanic cap of the Flat Tops (Table 2). <br />Table 2.--GRADIENTS OF STREAMS IN THE STUDY AREA. <br />Miles Percent <br />Sweetwater below Sweetwater Lake 10 0 2.5 <br />Sweetwater above Sweetwater Lake 6,6 5.7 <br />Turret Creek 7.9 7 2 <br />Dry Sweetwater 3.8 6.0 <br />S. Fk, White River above dam site 9.9 2,3 <br />S. Fk, White River below dam site, in Nat. Forest 13.7 1,7 <br />S, Fk, White River below Nat. Forest bdr 12.8 1.2 <br /> <br />