Coho salmon prefer streams with a high degree of structural complexity, including the presence of large woods, flood plains, braided channels, beaver ponds, and occasionally lakes.
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Formed by the confluence of Larry Creek and Rams Gully, the river flows generally south, much of the river is braided channels, joined by 21 minor course.
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As a result of the downpour, several of the Western River s braided channels were running, as were three on the Diamantina into which it flowed at Collingwood.
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The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flow westward down the valleys and across Aerodrome Plain where they turn south west forming braided channels.
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That, however, did not prevent the corps from transforming the Missouri, once a meandering river with countless braided channels that sheltered fish, birds and riverine plants, into a leveed-line ditch.
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The river flows generally west past Mount Bridget where the river veers south and crosses the Marlborough-Sarina Road and then forms a series of braided channels and continues generally south by southwest.
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This formed a pink sandstone . The flow came from the northwest, with particles derived from granite and gneiss . initially this filled in the hollows in the underlying granites, but soon overflowed into a braided channel.
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A stream with cohesive banks that are resistant to erosion will form narrow, deep, meandering channels, whereas a stream with highly erodible banks will form wide, shallow channels, sustaining helical flow and resulting in the formation of braided channels.
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It continues past Iffley and veers eastward at Leichhardt Downs forming a series of braided channels and veers south east again and flowing past the eastern edge of Junee State Forest and then discharges into the MacKenzie River of which it is a tributary.
