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<br />001067 <br /> <br />PUT1'JS RIVER BABIN INVeSTIGATIONS <br />FART II - NORTH PLATTE RIVER DABIN <br />J - Del!lorlptiv~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />!!6. Topogra.pIw (CQIlt td) <br />(3) Damincrnt Features (Cont'd) <br />(b) low 14aunto.1ns Cont'd) <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />To tha OO-llt d: the NoM;h Ple.tta 1l1ver in soutllElrn Wyanixlg, a seoond. <br /> <br /> <br />uplift of low mmmtll1IlS extends NoM;h\mrd, !'rom the gonore.l vioinity of Eiiediolno <br /> <br /> <br />Bow Peak, to a point apprOlCimIltely eaa-t of 'Pathfinder Reservoir, 1iwnoe swinging <br /> <br /> <br />northeastward and eastward to the Laramie Meuntll1ns, ond oontinuing sCl1theastwurd <br /> <br /> <br />ond southl'lard to a point noar and to the oast of the town of' Ie.ramie. <br /> <br />These low mounto.1ns, generally rongine; from 7,000 to 8~OOO feet in eleva- <br /> <br /> <br />tion, aro lArge>ly sagebrush oovered. They more or leSlS oompletely aurround iln <br /> <br /> <br />interior ple.1ne area., termed the Laramie P1ll1no, where tho domil1lUlt vegetat1QIl is <br /> <br /> <br />short grass, ond wI110h has an elevatiQIl~prax1mately 7,000 feet. <br /> <br />(e) Rlgh l.lounte.1n Ptlrk <br /> <br />North Park in Jackson County, Colo." at elevation 8,000 to 5,000 feet, <br />has heretoforo bean desoribed. There EIre no other equally bir;h and extensive <br />mountro.n plrk ll.l'oo.a in the baGin. <br /> <br />>>\"om the atondpoint of elevatian thoI'. , aro s1m1lar ureas of limited <br />~xtent alone; SO!:l.O of' tho tributaries oriC;ino.tinr; in tho Sierra Madre and Hvdioine <br />Dovr Moulltains in Wyor:linc, but these are small vo.lleyu, na distinguished fran hiGh <br />mountain p~k aroas. <br /> <br />From the stondpolnt of' ll.l'ea. the Larmnie Plains (tor,ether vdth ita <br /> <br />o2.tonsion into tho G1dioine Bow River drt\inae;o tlrea) are of' c;reater extent than <br /> <br />llol'th Pnrk. but aro lovler in eleva1:1on'. boill!; e.pproximntely 7,000 foet above see. <br /> <br />level. <br /> <br />-"'- <br />