http://www.wetlandsplendors.com John M. Karian Nature Photography Wed, 16 May 2012 23:24:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wetlandsplendors.com/the-allegheny-river/ http://www.wetlandsplendors.com/the-allegheny-river/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:02:40 +0000 wetlands http://www.wetlandsplendors.com/?p=233 From its headwater glade in Potter County, Pennsylvania, the Allegheny River meanders 314 miles to its mouth where it joins the Monongahela to form the Ohio River.  Its curvaceous slopes trace the edge of the last Ice Age, when the Wisconsinan Glacier diverted meltwater south from its original northward flow into Lake Erie.  Attendent to the Allegheny are tributaries and wetlands which drain 11,000 square miles of western Pennsylvania and western New York.

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