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Coweeta Hydrologic Lab - 1 Dec 2016 & Apr 2017 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2016-2017) |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Lab - 1 Dec 2016 & Apr 2017 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2016-2017) |
| December 2016: |
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| Camprock Branch Falls |
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| Camprock Branch Falls |
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| Camprock Branch Falls, from a higher vantage point |
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A few cascades along Shope Fork |
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Little Shope Falls |
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| My earlier excursion to Coweeta was primarily to visit Camprock Branch Falls, but I learned there is so much more to see on the Lab's 4000 acres. April 2017: |
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| First, a return visit to the falls on Camprock Branch |
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| Upper section |
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| Bear Corn (Conopholis americana) |
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| Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) was just beginning to bloom. |
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| Robin's Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus) |
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| Ruins of old hydrolectric power plant, built by the CCC, ca. 1935. |
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| Some sort of weir / flume / spillway structure, downstream from the old hydro plant. |
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| Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) |
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| Also known as Mayflower... |
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| A streamflow data-gathering weir in a very tranquil setting, way up on the mountain-side. |
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| Rock Tripe lichen (Umbilicaria mammulata) growing on cliff face. |
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| Small cascades on Shope Fork |
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| A small "forest" of Mayapples, aka Mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum). They remind me of little umbrellas when they first emerge from the ground. |