Wyoming, Teton County, Moran
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Curious depressions known as “Potholes,” dimple the glacial outwash plain here. Some 15,000 years ago, sediment carried by glacial meltwater buried huge blocks of ice that calved off retreating glaciers. As the ice melted, the ground sank leaving depressions behind known locally as ‘potholes,’ but known more commonly as ‘kettles.’
Kettles are bowl-shaped and range in size from 15 feet to ¼ mile in diameter. These depressions begin as steep-sided features but wind and water smooth the edges and deposit sediment in the bottom.
Trees take root in some kettles creating forest islands, while water pools in other kettles forming tiny wetland communities. On the semi-arid outwash plain, these islands provide food and shelter for a variety of wildlife.
Kettles are fragile, isolated ecosystems under constant stress from human impacts. Essentially fossil icebergs, the Potholes here relate to kettles found in other glaciated regions of North America providing insight into our changing environment.
A short ¼ mile trail leads around the forested Potholes nearby.
(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Curious depressions known as “Potholes,” dimple the glacial outwash plain here. Some 15,000 years ago, sediment carried by glacial meltwater buried huge blocks of ice that calved off retreating glaciers. As the ice melted, the ground sank leaving depressions behind known locally as ‘potholes,’ but known more commonly as ‘kettles.’
Kettles are bowl-shaped and range in size from 15 feet to ¼ mile in diameter. These depressions begin as steep-sided features but wind and water smooth the edges and deposit sediment in the bottom.
Trees take root in some kettles creating forest islands, while water pools in other kettles forming tiny wetland communities. On the semi-arid outwash plain, these islands provide food and shelter for a variety of wildlife.
Kettles are fragile, isolated ecosystems under constant stress from human impacts. Essentially fossil icebergs, the Potholes here relate to kettles found in other glaciated regions of North America providing insight into our changing environment.
A short ¼ mile trail leads around the forested Potholes nearby.
(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In Memory of
St. Helena Parish seat moved here 1832. Land for Court House Square donated by William Kendrick 1837. Present building completed 1938 replacing brick structure built 1855. Designated William Kendrick Square 1976 by Police Jury.
Erected to the memory of those Revolutionary War Patriots who not only helped to win freedom for our Country but also helped to carve a civilization within St. Helena Parish.
House claimed by the river was
Organized in 1856. Existing building constructed in 1898. Oldest Baptist church building in Livingston Parish. Drinking water furnished by ground water spring. Surrounding area settled by Anglo-Saxon Protestants in 1800's.
Four hundred yards west of this site, December 17, 1861, Colonel B.F. Terry, 8th Texas Cavalry, CSA, was killed. He was leading his Rangers in a charge against troops, formed in a hollow square, of the 32nd Indiana Volunteers under the command of Colonel August Willich.
