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(July 23, 1931). The Gila River upstream from its juncture with
Blue Creek near the Arizona-New Mexico border drains 3,203 mi2 of
rangeland and the Gila Wilderness. Just downstream from Blue Creek,
the channel is somewhat confined within a bedrock canyon, but just
upstream, as this view shows, the valley is relatively wide (James
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| (June 11, 1964). By 1964, cottonwood trees had grown up along the
banks of the river behind a lower ribbon of tamarisk trees. The channel
position is the same despite a flood of 41,700 ft³/s in 1941
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(October 5, 2000). The channel has shifted to the left, possibly
during one of the four floods that exceeded 27,000 ft³/s between
1964 and 2000. The cottonwood gallery has been destroyed, and the
channel is lined with tamarisk and coyote willows with scattered brickellbush
(Dominic Oldershaw, Stake 346a). |
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