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Title
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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June29 - Lincoln, Nebraska Came down last night to go with Dr. Wolcott on an expedition to the Salt Basin, northwest of town. It rained steadily all day until about 4 p m, when we left the house. The Salt Basin is a natural minor depression draining many square miles. Its salinity arises chiefly from a large gushing spring near its southwestern border which affords a considerable volume of salt water; but there are many lesser springs. As the actual water surface, which covers perhaps two square miles, varies in area periodically by reason of run-in water from the melting of snow in the drainage area, and intermittently when heavy rains come, there are no naturally established banks as boundaries, though there is some rock work put in to retain water in the "lake bed," done long ago to afford a summer playground; for Lincoln, established on rolling grassland, has about it nothing scenically attractive. Some years ago this playground of sorts was knowns of Burlington Beach as a resort; the rock work was not kept in repair; the water now covers its natural instead of an artificially maintained level, at no point deeper than 12 to 18 inches except briefly after melting of snow or by reason of heavy rainfall. The "lake" area being approximately two square miles, there is an additional and perhaps equal bordering area where the water is very
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Rights
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes