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  • The Ob, Irtysh and Enisey rivers and their numerous tributaries have their headwaters here. Sayan montane conifer forests
  • Other species, and even genera that could be construed as subgenera of Salmo are localized in single lakes in Europe, an area of spring-fed streams along the Adriatic coast of former Yugoslavia, and a few small headwater streams in south-central Turkey. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • The Jivaro live on the eastern slopes of the Andes where mountain ranges meet the Amazon River headwaters.
  • Seepage from the Ogallala in eastern Colorado creates the headwaters for the North Fork of the Republican River, which flows past the Adamson family farm, and into Nebraska and Kansas. Liquid Gold
  • the headwaters of the Nile
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  • We pulled dinner from below the lower falls and spent another day crossing Otter Lake and exploring the boggy headwaters of the Steelhead River.
  • But hundreds of headwater streams that supply them will cease flowing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sewage discharge, bush clearance, farm runoff, sedimentation, landfills, gravel extraction, water abstraction, headwater diversion, commercial fishing operations, and the Tongariro hydroelectricity scheme has all had a direct influence on the destruction of the fisheries in this rohe. NZ On Screen
  • The park waters of Yoho and Kootenay flow to the Pacific Ocean through the Columbia drainage, those of Mount Robson, via the headwaters of the Fraser River. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada
  • Clearcuts and the failure to provide for adequate buffers along the Caribou Mountain headwaters have increased stream flow.
  • The largespotted cutthroat occurs in headwater tributaries to the Gros Ventre, and the finespotted cutthroat occurs in the rest of the drainages. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • The routes and trails to the buffalo plains commonly followed the banks of the west-flowing rivers to their remote headwaters on the Continental Divide.
  • It was Kuna territory in 1600 when the Spaniards built a small fort at El Real to protect the river route to the gold mines in the Rio Tuira headwaters.
  • Obtaining horses, they travelled over the Continental Divide to arrive at the headwaters of the Clearwater River.
  • The water was the cleanest it had been in more than 100 years and the planting out of trout and salmon fry in the headwaters was beginning to rejuvenate the river as a serious angling prospect once again.
  • Swindon's location, so close to the headwaters of the River Thames, does not sit well with the normal sewage treatment works programme that allows some dilution effect to deal with pollution.
  • Cutthroat trout of Pacific Creek are nonmigratory stream fish and the cutthroat of Atlantic Creek are migratory fish from Yellowstone Lake that run up to spawn in its headwaters and no farther. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • The task force also heard from Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area Director Rob White, who said that the Arkansas River draws 42 percent of the state's rafting business and called rafting a "huge economic machine" for the area. Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • The Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, for example, attempted to explore the headwaters of the Niger River during the 1850's with a large group of men recruited from British jails.
  • Although the year of Geronimo's birth remains obscure, he was born a Bedonkohe Apache around the headwaters of the Gila River in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico.
  • While chaos and economic collapse continues to engulf the Indian subcontinent (moreso from the Chinese damming of the headwaters of the Indus, Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers in their insatiable thirst for energy than from any direct external conflict), our lives west of the RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
  • This second form, often called fluvial, occurs only in relatively larger river basins that contain a network of headwater spawning tributaries connected to larger riverine habitat, allowing bull trout to undertake movements of more than 100 miles 160 km as they search for prey. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • In the mid-nineteenth century the headwaters of the river were dammed, forming Spring Lake, which remains a popular attraction.
  • As with many eastern national forests, the government bought these tracts from private owners, hoping that in time a new forest would take hold to protect the headwaters of eastern rivers.
  • But if Clinton vetoes the spending bill because of other disagreements, the Headwaters purchase becomes far less certain this year.
  • The largest and finest henge monument in Britain set on the rolling chalk downlands of southern England near the headwaters of the River Kennet.
  • The region includes the large interfluve between the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers, both major tributaries to the mighty Amazon, and extends southward into the headwaters of the Tapajós to the Rio Guaporé Basin. Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
  • The mine itself, the screening plant and all the rest of it, that's just out of sight, right in the bed of the creek's headwaters. HIGH STAND
  • The Dee River, with its headwaters in Bala Lake, the largest natural lake in Wales, flows through northern Wales into England.
  • Many wetlands in the headwaters of river systems (such as bogs and river margins) probably perform a similar service. Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being
  • Springbrook, on the headwaters of the Nerang River, received about 900 mm of rain within 24 hours.
  • From 9pm, on January 2, to 9am, on January 4, the headwater at Boulters had risen ten inches, and the tailwater by 17 ins - this represented the peak at Boulters.
  • Rather than gushing down a lush mountainside, the headwaters of the river seen in The Source puddle prosaically beside a suburban high school.
  • The Oxus was swift, cold, and deep because it was fed by melting snows at its headwaters in the high Pamir Mountains to the east. Alexander the Great
  • Three-quarters is protected to ensure the conservation of headwaters and a further quarter to prevent soil erosion. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
  • This text analyze the overall water quality protection system, from the laws establishment, polluters participation system, to the headwater recovery, facility construction and so on.
  • However, not all lakes in the Wisconsin River headwaters seem to have offered comparable opportunities for wild rice gathering.
  • Millions of fry were planted in the headwaters, eroded banks were reconstructed, croys were built in the streamy runs, and new pools were created in various sections of the river.
  • From the headwaters of the burn it was a fairly straightforward climb over heather slopes to Mholach's rocky peak - but it was dark by the time I reached the big summit cairn.
  • This text analyze the overall water quality protection system, from the laws establishment, polluters participation system, to the headwater recovery, facility construction and so on.
  • In the headwaters of most rivers there are large tracts of agricultural land and a virtual absence of industrial discharges.
  • Near the headwaters, there's a necklace of four soft-bottomed ponds where egrets stand watch on the shore and owls roost beneath bridges.
  • For this rural city nestled in an Appalachian Mountain valley at the headwaters of three major rivers, the question was whether trees could reduce flooding.
  • Over time, the Barron River 'captured' some of the headwaters of the Mitchell River.
  • This text analyze the overall water quality protection system, from the laws establishment, polluters participation system, to the headwater recovery, facility construction and so on.
  • Near starvation, the explorers finally find the headwaters of the Columbia River and are soon riding the swift current toward the Pacific Ocean and their second winter away from home.
  • Many streams in Ecoregion 63f have been straightened and deepened to improve drainage and interbasin connections in headwater areas are not uncommon (Cushing and others, 1973). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
  • Klare provides thumbnail summaries of numerous conflicts great and small, from the South China Sea to the headwaters of the Nile.
  • In the warmer months of spawning season longear sunfish are generally found in shallower, warmer headwaters of streams which have numerous pools with permanent or semi-permanent flow.
  • `In that country which lies around the headwater of the Gila River I was reared. PAINT THE WIND
  • Mountain Climbing and Bicycle - cross Challenging Race at the Pearl River Headwaters, Zhanyi County , Qujing Prefecture.
  • Long ago, another stream captured the headwaters of the Wind Gap stream, leaving the gap high and dry.
  • From its base we could explore the headwaters of the stream leading back to camp for our cross-country route into Wallace Creek, to the north.
  • Located in west-central Montana, these streams join in a single valley to form the headwaters of the Missouri River.
  • Fish moved from the lower parts to the headwaters soon evolve local ways.
  • Upland valleys and the headwaters of fast-flowing rivers descend to the coast through some of the world's largest swamps.
  • Winter snowfall accumulates as a snowpack and the high elevation Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir and limber pine forests provide an essential cover so that the snow melts slowly in the springtime and feeds the headwaters of the mighty Colorado River which drains one tenth of the land base in the lower 48 states. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
  • The banded sculpin and slender madtom occur in small streams, especially where aquatic macrophytes are present, and the southern redbelly dace inhabits headwaters. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
  • It completely fills a small, deep valley in the headwaters of the Choluteca River, in the central highlands.
  • The compositions of the magnetic minerals deposited within a sedimentary environment depend primarily on the compositions of the rocks in the headwaters of the streams and rivers entering the sedimentary basin.
  • When they spawn, they head into shallow headwater brooks of the river.
  • The banded sculpin and slender madtom occur in small streams, especially where aquatic macrophytes are present, and the southern redbelly dace inhabits headwaters. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
  • The wide range of water availability cited in this study, somewhere between not another drop left to an additional million acre-feet, should concern all headwater communities who are targets for future or increased transmountain diversions," she says. Aspen Times - Top Stories
  • Frankly, it's laughable (not to mention offensive) to accept the Corps'premise that it's possible to actually "mitigate" the effects of mine operations -- you simply can't replace a buried headwater stream by constructing a gravel-lined drainage channel. Rob Perks: Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action
  • Indeed, the dams which impound the headwaters release a weekly dose of ‘compensation flow’, which delivers at least one artificial spate for your holiday, even with the sun beating down.
  • A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
  • Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide. The Three-Day Cutt Slam...
  • Where the 1979 regulations required haulage and placement of the rock and soil in compacted, constructed, engineered fills, OSM weakened the rules to allow end-dumping and wing-dumping from the mine bench of excessive amounts of mine "spoil" -- the soil and rock removed from above coal seams, into headwater streams. Undefined
  • Leaving the Dalles, Frémont followed up the Des Chutes River to its headwaters in southeastern Oregon, thence he crossed over the divide to the waters of the Klamath, which he followed southward to what is known as Klamath Marsh. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
  • The scientist recently returned from an expedition to Turkey's Taurus Mountains near the headwaters of the Tigris River.

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