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Prairie Lake

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A prairie lake is a somewhat shallow lake that naturally empties during dry seasons, exposing a nutrient rich lakebed on which a variety of terrestrial plants can flourish, before the lake eventually refills with water and returns to its earlier aquatic state.

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