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Prairie Basin Wetlands of the Dakotas:
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jpg -- prairie potholes

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.

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