These were rocks in sparkling shallows in Bear Creek in drought in Minnesota.

Bear Creek was badly channelized, thru a sterile barren urban parkland.

 

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In Rochester, Minnesota, on September 3rd, 2023, was Bear Creek as viewed from a pedestrian bridge in Slatterly Park, during an extreme drought as declared by the National Weather Service.

 

Bear Creek flows to the South Fork Zumbro River, which converges with the Middle Fork Zumbro River to form the Zumbro River, which flows to the Mississippi River.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Bear Creek (2154190)

• Olmsted (county) (2001053)

• Rochester (2055340)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• artificial water channels (300133792)

• autumn (300133093)

• bicycle trails (300008324)

• drought (300055368)

• flood control (300055278)

• glare (300056032)

• lawns (landscaped grass) (300008889)

• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)

• reflected light (300056026)

• riverine landscapes (300435110)

• rivers (300008707)

• rock (inorganic material) (300011692)

• shallows (300387038)

• summer (season) (300133099)

• trails (recreation areas) (300000626)

• urban landscapes (300132447)

 

Wikidata items:

• 3 September 2023 (Q69306911)

• Bear Creek (Q21196846)

• Central tall grasslands (Q5062159)

• Driftless Area (Q5307487)

• Driftless Area ecoregion (Q122302119)

• Mississippi River drainage basin (Q2887546)

• municipal park (Q22746)

• riparian zone (Q13360049)

• river engineering (Q1187134)

• Rochester-Austin-Winona, MN Combined Statistical Area (Q123614775)

• Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland (Q122303614)

• September 3 (Q2860)

• September 2023 (Q61312993)

• Slatterly Park (Q49562367)

• Southeast Minnesota (Q7569365)

• stream channelization (Q42296746)

• Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (Q7837264)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Parks—Minnesota (sh85098170)

• Rivers—Minnesota (sh85114344)

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