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Geoscape - S. Saskatchewan

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Geoscape - S. Saskatchewan

Big Valleys

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Our Big Valleys: Vital Multi-Use Corridors
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Large valleys, such as the Qu'Appelle and Souris river valleys, are major landscape features of vital importance to southern Saskatchewan. These valleys provide for diverse uses - water storage, farmland, wetland habitat, woodlands, gravel pits, and even ski areas. Try to imagine Saskatchewan without its valleys!
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Characteristics of a Saskatchewan valley
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  • Duncairn Dam, near Swift Current 

  • Valley-floor gravel pit, North Battleford

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  • Wapiti Valley Ski Area, Saskatchewan River valley 



  • Irrigated cropland, Qu'Appelle River valley

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  • Blackstrap reservoir



  • Valley wetland 




  • Deer in coulee


A Puzzle:

Many large valleys such as the Qu'Appelle, Souris, and Frenchman contain streams that are too small to have carved them. How did these valleys form?
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