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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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June 29 - continued on the water of its borders; but there are no trees, and plowed ground is not entrancing after a heavy rain. So today we tackled another area. East of the part of the lake nearest town, a patch of perhaps 25 acres has escaped clearing. It is high enough to have escaped inundation and to have stabilized its vegetative cover. Its western border is marked by a deep cut paralleling the main bit of rock work done long ago to retain water in the lake as mentioned before. Along the slopes of this out there are many weeds: sunflower, ragweed, white goosefoot, white-margined spurge. In this cut the frequent scourings due to rains have reduced salinity to a point which eliminates glasswort (Salicornia) but permits a minimized growth of seablite (Dondia) in its lower portions; both are of saline habit and both are common along the borders of the lake to the west. It may be of interest to stare that in the whole area of Nebraska, the glasswort (Salicornia europaea L.) has been found only in the Salt Basin at Lincoln. In moist portions in pockets along the slope are found sedges, slough grass, tules, cattails, a few young willows. On the highest portion of this limited area there are mature willows, box elder, green ash, a few elms, many locust trees, a few red haws (Crataegus), and numerous wild plums of shrub stature often in clumps. Greenbrier and grapevines ascend the trees; coral-berry, or Indian currant (Symphoricarpos) occurs in quantity and afford the chief shrub growth. The ground is well covered with grasses and numerous weeds, chiefly annuals. The high portion of the area is mot over 8 feet above the level of the bottom of the cut. The few highest trees
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Rights
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes