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A brown river flows around the photographer. Trees on the distant banks.
Arkansas River.

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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is situated on a series of low benches along the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. It is located on the western edge of the Great Plains at an elevation of 4,035 feet. This area is shortgrass prairie, classified as the Kuchler Vegetation Type, as grama and buffalo grasses predominate on the high benches. The river bottoms encompass mixed grasses, riparian, and wetland plant species. The current vegetation is a mixture of native plant communities impacted by exotics and grasslands recovering from agricultural use.

 

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Channel Catfish
Channel catfish

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"Cat fish and hickory shad ar the only kinds I have ever seen in these waters; and we found them very palatable, although they may not be compared with the white fish of lake superior or the rock fish of the Potomac."
—Lt. J. W. Abert, August 26, 1846

Last updated: December 5, 2023

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