Prairie Basin Wetlands of the Dakotas:
A Community Profile
Upper Left: Palustrine aquatic bed vegetation (Potamogeton gramineus) in a fresh, seasonally flooded prairie wetland.
Upper Middle: Palustrine emergent vegetation (Scripus acutus) in an oligosaline, semipermanently flooded wetland.
Upper Right: Snow geese (Chen caerulescens) using a cultivatied, temporarily flooded wetland during spring migration through the Prairie Pothole region.
Bottom: Basin wetlands of various sizes and with different hydrological regimes are a major feature of the landscape in croplands, haylands, and pasture types of land-use patterns in the Prairie Pothole region.
