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Bookmark or Share- Dry lake - WikipediaFar from major rivers or lakes, playas are often the only water available to wildlife in the desert. Antelope and other wildlife gather there after rainstorms to drink. Threats to dry lakes include pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations such as cattle feedlots and dairies.
- How Playas Work | Playa Lakes Joint Venture - PLJVPlayas have an unpredictable and rapidly changing wet-dry cycle, which is essential to how they work — and provide benefits including groundwater recharge and wildlife habitat.
- Playa | Geology, Hydrology & Ecology | Britannicaplaya, flat-bottom depression found in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts within arid and semiarid regions, periodically covered by water that slowly filtrates into the ground water system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom and around the edges of the depression.
- Playa Lakes: Understanding Their Importance and How to Protect Them and ...Playa lakes are one of the most important types of ephemeral or temporary wetlands in the arid Southwest (Figure 1). These shallow, generally circular depressions with clay-lined basins form at the lowest point in an enclosed watershed. They can range in size from a few acres to up to 200 acres.
- Playa Lakes | US EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMost playas fill with water only after spring rainstorms when freshwater collects in the round depressions of the otherwise flat landscape of West Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. There are also a few saltwater-filled playas.
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