river systems

Listing 1 - 10 from 155 for river systems

The Farm Bill: Helping Landowners Help Wildlife
... the Florida Everglades, its estuaries, and river lagoon systems. These restoration efforts aim to improve water quality and wildlife habitat by reducing agricultural pollution in specific river systems, reducing phosphorus loading in the Everglades ...
edis.ifas.ufl.edu

FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 1
... Baffin Island receded to the areas where glaciers are found at present. Geographical Features River systems, surficial geology, edrock types, and permafrost are features of North American geography that ... River Systems North America has several major river basins (fig. 1.4). The St. Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes Basin and opens into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Mississippi River system ...
hua.huh.harvard.edu

Recycling and waste management
... was once regarded as waste and disposed of in landfill or into coastal and inland river systems. We now realise that what we used to call ‘waste’ is actually a wasted resource ...
www.agric.nsw.gov.au

Australia's Floral Emblem
... New South Wales, Thomas Mitchell, who led two exploratory expeditions to the Darling and Murray River systems. The British botanist, George Bentham (1800-1884) described the species in 1842. Bentham wrote Flora ...
www.anbg.gov.au

Australian Systematic Botany Society
... how to grow them. It is a socio-political account of cotton growing on the river systems of northern New south Wales rarely even touching Queensland. Success cannot be denied, yields are ... has been cavalier use of fertilizers and pesticides which have contributed to a Green Darling River. This hugely successful venture makes a nonsense of 'sustainable agriculture' and demonstrates how little the ...
www.anbg.gov.au More from this site

Denver Botanic Gardens
... plants. Here in the Rocky Mountain region, we are particularly concerned about the invasion of river systems by a Eurasian tree, tamarisk. Tamarisk (Tamarix spp., aka saltcedar) "wastes" water through high evapotranspiration ...
www.botanicgardens.org

CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
... 466-467. Ferren, W.R., Jr.; Schuyler, A.E. 1980. Intertidal vascular plants of river systems near Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 132: 86-120. ... Sensitive joint-vetch life history and habitat study, 1993 Field Season, Mattaponi and Rappahannock River systems, Virginia. Richmond, VA: Schnabel Environmental Services. p.26. USFWS. 1995. Sensitive Joint-Vetch ...
www.centerforplantconservation.org

We all depend on Minnesota's rivers
... U.S. and back about 15 times. We use river water for drinking, cooking, taking showers and electricity. Minnesotans also use river water for dozens of other things, including fishing, ... in Minnesota's river systems. There are chapters on various uses of Minnesota river water, who controls the state's rivers, monitoring activities and the agencies responsible for river management. You can ...
www.extension.umn.edu

Amazon Conservation Team: Fragua River Special Conservation Area
... UMIYAC The UMIYAC Declaration Indi Wasi National Park Code of Ethics Fragua River Agreement Fragua River Special Conservation Area and Sacred Sites Agreement Indigenous territories confront many of ... 70 hectares of land to establish sustainable production systems. As a way to achieve wider and stronger territorial control and implement sustainable systems, the Ingano authorities are fully open ...
www.ethnobotany.org

Powell River Project - Foundations for Housing on Reclaimed Mined Lands
... if rigidly anchored to settling ground, can be severely damaged. Table 1: Building structural systems as they tolerate differential settlement. Rigid structures are least able to tolerate structural ... and J.W. Dulin. 1987. Residential Foundations for Reclaimed Land. Final Report, prepared for Powell River Project. Department of Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech. Krebs, R.D. 1987. "Residential Housing ...
www.ext.vt.edu

These listings are filtered
View all for river systems