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Thursday, April 9, 2020

Prairie Pot Hole


The Prairie Pothole region, over 300,000 square miles, exists in the northern Great Plains and extends well into Canada. These are small depressions of varying depths that filled with water from melting glaciers about 12,000 years ago. The last glacier was a sheet of ice more than a mile thick that extended as far south as Nebraska and Iowa. That glacier deposited soil and rocks leaving thousands of depressions that filled with water. This created a rich area for wildlife, especially ground nesting shore birds. Unfortunately most of these wetlands have been drained so the land can be farmed. 

13 comments:


  1. The tree says: water, water ...

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  2. Seems like the potholes on one of our local bridges are worse than that even. I like this picture!

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  3. What do I see. A little pound or lake in the prairie?

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  4. What??? That is one super size pothole.

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  5. Your potholes are the size of lakes!

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  6. Beautiful clear blue water !

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  7. Seeing a natural miracle like this must be breathtaking.

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  8. We have an area in Eastern Washington called The Potholes----very similar although a wilderness/fishing area now, Hot,dusty and not fun to me
    MB

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  9. What an interesting phenomenon TFG ✨

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  10. There's this contrast between the tree, on a dry ground, and all this water just nearby..

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