Deep Enough for Ivorybills Mystery Cache
Deep Enough for Ivorybills
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Please take terrain rating seriously. This site may have feral hogs present and is not appropriate for children or dogs. This site includes a bottomland hardwood forest and wetland which periodically flood. Understory vegetation may be extremely dense in places, limiting visibility. Large thorns are also present. There is no well-defined trail. The cache is not accessible from the river. Please do not disturb any of the research sites you encounter. Do not attempt this cache at night.
The cross-sectional topography of rivers and streams is complex and adds diversity to forest systems by providing an ecotone (transition zone) between the biomes of the upland forest and that of the river itself. Here are some brief descriptions of some landforms you may encounter along your journey. See if you can identify them in the landscape.
Levee- Natural levees commonly form around lowland rivers and creeks without human intervention. They are elongate ridges of mud and/or silt that form on the river floodplains immediately adjacent to the cut banks. Like artificial levees, they act to reduce the likelihood of floodplain inundation.
Floodplain- A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.
Terrace- Fluvial terraces are remnants of the former floodplain of a stream or river. They are formed by the downcutting of a river or stream channel into and the abandonment and lateral erosion of its former floodplain. The downcutting, abandonment, and lateral erosion of a former floodplain can be the result of either changes in sea level, local or regional tectonic uplift; changes in local or regional climate; changes the amount of sediment being carried by the river or stream; change in discharge of the river; or a complex mixture of these and other factors.
Deep Enough for Ivorybills is a series of essays by James Kilgo. To access this cache, you’ll need to be familiar with this article from the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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