Drive North Fork Road to Kintla Creek and backtrack 0.3 mi. to south; park and hike to near point of peninsula formation projecting into North Fork Flathead; area is crossed by meandering drainage channels.
There are scattered channels, (shallow, <1m mostly) that act as drainage in flood years; the soil has no rock as deep as 20-25 cm (clearly an alluvial deposition); the site is probably flooded in exceptional flood years and is spring saturated in normal o
Representativeness
Highly representative of lowland formation at tip of peninsula; canopy cover varies somewhat, but mo
