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Increasing Vegetation on River Bars at Toklat River: 1958-2001
A photo pair showing Increasing Vegetation on River Bars at Toklat River: 1958-2001
*This description was written by teachers who visited the park in June 2012 to learn about communicating climate change. Looking southwest from the Toklat Bridge, there is an active riverbed in 1958. There is very little vegetation in the streambed. Approximately 40 years later, the active river channel has moved out of site of this photo (to under the bridge) and is being colonized by low lying vegetation. It has now taken on the role of a floodplain where sediment is deposited. It is important to note the bridge has limited where the water flows due to the road being built up which blocked the active stream channel, creating more of a floodplain environment. Little vegetation change has occurred on the distant slopes, but in 2012 there was a patch of poplars seen on site at the left edge of the spruce trees that is not apparent or noticeable in either of the photos.
Original year: 1958; Rephoto year: 2001
U.S. National Park Service
Photos and photo pairs are pre-approved for educational use ONLY. To use them in educational products, credit them the same way as they are credited on the website, Photo Credit: Original photographer: Leslie A. Viereck; Rephoto photographer: Leslie A. Viereck. For any other use beyond education, contact Denali National Park and Preserve for additional copyright information on specific images of interest.
Original photographer: Leslie A. Viereck; Rephoto photographer: Leslie A. Viereck
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Denali National Park and Preserve, Code: DENA
Toklat River, Alaska Range mountains, Alaska
Latitude: 63.518735, Longitude: -150.040628
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Latitude: 63.3182792663574, Longitude: -150.602905273438
Latitude: 63.518735, Longitude: -150.040628
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Latitude: 63.3182792663574, Longitude: -150.602905273438
2012/06/25
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Organization: US National Park Service
Address: Denali National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 9, Denali Park, AK 99755
Organization: US National Park Service
Address: Denali National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 9, Denali Park, AK 99755
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