Aerial photograph/GIS analysis and field studies of the Grand Valley and Ruby-Horsethief Canyon of the Colorado River

Van Steeter, Mark.

Pitlick, John.
Cress, Robert.

University of Colorado Boulder. Department of Geography.

1995

Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colo.

It has been suggested in a number of recent reports that the decline in native fish populations in the Colorado River system is due primarily to habitat loss and environmental changes associated with the construction of reservoirs and water diversions. However until we began examining this issue no one had actually determined the significance of channel change on the Colorado River nor had the link between flow regulation and channel change been well established Our purposes then in undertaking geomorphic studies in the Grand Valley area and Ruby Horsethief Canyon were to quantify historic changes in river morphology to study the response of existing habitats to the present day flow regimen and to predict the flow magnitude which will transport coarse sediment for habitat creation and maintenance.

Mark M. Van Steeter, John Pitlick, and Bob Cress.
"June 1995."
Bibliography: pages 63-64
Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed May 2018)

River channels--Environmental aspects
Environmental aspects

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)

1 online resource (93 pages) : illustrations, maps

eng

UCB5/18.2/AE8/1995/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/11629/co:27820

1035161364

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