WSP08184

• File Number: 8200.765
• Description: White River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 11/1/1966
• Author: USFS
• Title: Water and Related Land Resources - White River Basin in Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Geologic erosion is conspicuous along rocky canyons and shale slopes.
Severe accelerated water erosion is principally confined to stream
bank cutting and deep gullying in narrow valleys and swales. Portions
of this unit are ....ithin "Frail Watershed Lands" !:I that have been
described and inventoried by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Soil Mapping Unit 3: Shallow rocky and deep moderately dark colored
soils of the uplands.

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This is the largest unit in the Basin.
or slightly more than 34 percent of the
broad belt lying between the deserts and
Evacuation, Cottonwood, Douglas, Spring,

It extends over 839,000 acres
Basin. Much of it covers a
unit 5. Major creeks are:
Yellow and Piceance.

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Spring grazing
(Soil Mapping Unit 3)

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The landscape is highly dissected by creeks and their intermittent
tributaries. There is a repeating pattern of narro~ alluvial valleys
along creeks flanked by canyons or very steep rocky slopes which rise
to higher lying uplands. Narro~ bands of rolling upland or mesas
form divides between upper reaches of creek tributaries.

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!! Jensen, Cyril L. "A Preliminary Study and Report on Frail Watershed
Lands". U. S. Department of the Interior, 1964.

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