Excerpt from Environment of Mesa Verde, Colorado The Mancos River, which borders Mesa Verde and drains its many canyons, has its headwaters in the La Plata Mountains to the north. Within the mesa proper the only natural water supply available to man and other animal life comes from springs and seeps in the canyons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.