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June 19, 2016

Up Crow Creek With a Paddle

By Bob Butters                                                                                                 at Nooga.com

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Crow Creek, within the Crow Creek Wildlife Management Area.               (Photo: Bob Butters)

  Crow Creek, which flows into the Tennessee River near Stevenson, Alabama, is one of my favorite places for canoeing. Upstream from the Crow Creek Refuge within the 2, 069 acre Crow Creek Wildlife Management Area, the creek channel narrows and winds through a more forested environment as part of a maze of creeks and side sloughs that are still controlled by Guntersville Dam.

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Kim photographs the reflections.                                                                     (Photo: Bob Butters)

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The small set of rapids which marked our turn-around point.                           (Photo: Bob Butters)

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This butterfly accompanied us for much of the trip upstream.

(Photo: Kim Butters)


 

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