Final Project: Proforma Map

Project Objectives

Photograph of Salmon, ID featuring the prominent Salmon River, courtesy of the City of Salmon. The reach at Site 2 is located 7 miles north of Salmon.

Explore one reach for the final project and become familiarized with the river chosen for the final project
Produce a tier 1 map of one selected reach
Report confinement, constriction, and other metrics characterizing the reach

All maps and calculations were performed in NAD83 UTM Zone 12N.

Tier 1 Proforma Map

Imagery: NAIP (2023), 0.5-m resolution (downloaded from The National Map).

Site Metrics

Site Length (m): 906.5

Riverscape Width (m): 1,004.3

Confinement (%): 0.0

Constriction (%): 0.0

Area of Valley Bottom (m2): 919,564

Proportions of Valley Bottom Area:

Active Channel: 0.099
Active Floodplain: 0.261
Inactive Floodplain: 0.533

Provisional Name: Laterally unconfined, low sinuosity, discontinuous floodplain, anastomizing, gravel-bed river.

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