FLOOD01223

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: South Platte
• Title: Upper Platte River Basin Study 1979-83
• Date: 1/1/1979
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Table 3.--Acreages for habitat types along the North and South Platte
Rivers (1 mile on either side of the river)
North Pl atte RiverlJ South Platte Riverg;
Habitat Type Acres percent of total Acres percent of total
Cattai 1 marsh 1,541 0.2 151 0.0
Closed cottonwood 6,854 0.9 444 0.1
Conifer 50,994 6.6
Cottonwood willow 20,735 2.7 40,583 10.0
Crop 1 and 117,441 15.1 149,126 36.7
Dead cottonwood 248 2,239 0.5
Dougl as fi r 11,523 2.8
Mountain shrub 195,975 25.3 6,009 1.5
Open cottonwood 17,921 2.3 3,263 0.8
Open marsh 4,572 0.6 3,848 0.9
Open park 9,562 1.2 2,972 0.7
Open water 109,325 14.1
Ponderosa pi ne 10,000 2.4
Prairie grassland 54,586 7.0 12,129 3.0
Sagebrush . 114,311 14.7 32,003 7.9
Urban 29,998 3.9 56,006 13.8
Unvegetated sandbar 3,865 0.5 1,355 0.3
Vegetated sandbar 2,268 0.2 943 0.2
Wet meadow 31,392 4.0 68,325 16.8
Willow 4,041 0.5 291
No photo cover age 4,913 1.2
Totals 775,629 99.8 401,210 99.6

1; North Platte River - 499 total river miles.
g; South Platte River - 385 total river miles.

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