Sentences with phrase «headwaters of»

The area is home to the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and benefits from the headwaters of Ballona Creek, which empties into the Santa Monica Bay.

The home is sited alongside the headwaters of Fish Creek and provides dramatic views of the ski resort, aerial tram and the Tetons beyond.

Grab the hiking shoes or even a canoe and the whole family can go to Grassy Waters Preserve, which is the headwaters of the Everglades system.1 If you are more appreciative of art, take the family to the Norton Museum of art to view 19th and 20th century American and European artwork.

This requires a special effort by the custodial parent because he or she is at the headwaters of the information stream.

The vulnerable region is home to most of the headwaters of major rivers, including the Danube, Rhine, Po, and Rhone, and its glaciers provide 40 percent of Europe's fresh water.

The U.S. State Department must keep President Obama's campaign commitment to oppose mining in the headwaters of the North Fork.

Edwin Chota pauses while on a mission to overtake and expel an illegal logging crew from his community's land claim in the headwaters of the Alto Tamaya River, near Peru's border with Brazil.

The mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay is projected to be the largest in North America, generating billions of tons of mine waste and industrializing important salmon habitat in the heart of the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery.

The study looked at four species of goliath catfish that spawn in the western headwaters of the Amazon.

This region is also at the headwaters of the drinking water supplies of many US cities.

The researchers — who measured for the first time the radiocarbon content of aquatic carbon dioxide and dissolved organic carbon in headwaters of the western Canadian Arctic — believe that carbon originating from before 1750 comprises up to 37 % of total fluxes.

Runoff due to glacial melt is minor in the wetter monsoon catchments of the Ganges and Brahmaputra but more substantial in the drier westerly - dominated headwaters of the Indus (17, 24);

But the site is located in a pristine wilderness — an area that is popular with tourists and local people for outdoor recreation and also with commercial fishermen — and is at the headwaters of a river that flows through productive agricultural land and population centers.

Munkhbayar and members from his organization United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (UMMRL), together with 11 other NGOS, were protesting government attempts to weaken the «Law to prohibit mineral exploration and mining at headwaters of rivers, protected zones of water reservoirs and forested areas,» informally known as «the law with the long name» or LLN.

Mann PJ, Eglinton TI, Mcintyre CP, Zimov N, Davydova A, Vonk JE, Holmes RM, Spencer RGM (2015) Utilization of ancient permafrost carbon in headwaters of Arctic fluvial networks.

Much of the political opposition to fracking has focused on the Catskill region, headwaters of the Delaware River and the source of most of New York City's drinking water.

Charles F. Wilkinson, The Headwaters of the Public Trust: Some Thoughts on the Source and Scope of the Traditional Doctrine, 19 Envtl.

A third pipeline, called the Sandpiper, will move fracked oil through the north country, crossing pristine watersheds, the headwaters of the Mississippi and then pour ed into a set of newly proposed refinery expansions, pipelines and possibly tankers in the Great Lakes region.

Glaciers provide about 13 km3 of water during the summer peak melt period as the Abramov and Fedchenko glacier are at the headwaters of the Vaksh River (Normatov and Petrov, 2006).

The headwaters of the Bhagirathi River is the Gangotri and Khatling Glacier, Garhwal Himalaya.

The headwaters of the Rio Grande lie only about 70 miles away from Durango in the San Juans, just on the other side of the Continental Divide.

The mountains in the region form the headwaters of several major river systems — including the Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers — which serve as sources of drinking water and irrigation supplies for roughly 1.5 billion people.

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The Peruvian Ashaninka people live in the headwaters of the Tamaya River, where they had been forgotten, passing unnoticed, until a new threat under the guise of a demand for mahogany and other hardwoods began to extend its tentacles into their remote region.

Euler stumbles, lost, somewhere near the headwaters of the Congo.

Some of his better - known works are Shelling Peas, West Texas Skies, Lincoln Park, Misty Morning, and Headwaters of the Concho.

From here it's a gentle walk as the path follows the raised metal wakway past yet another glacial lake, over the headwaters of the Snowy River and on to the Eagles Nest for a ride down the chairlift to Thredbo.

More adventuresome visitors can reach the headwaters of the Amazon River, a glacial tributary on the northern slope of El Mismi Volcano.

Explore the Headwaters of Mountain Rivers with their Cascading Waterfalls.

The headwaters of the Rio Pejibaye are located in the mountains above La Marta Preserve.

This delightful eco-cottage is situated in the fishing village of River Heads near the headwaters of the Mary and Susan Rivers.

Besides being the home to Belize's largest cat, the Sanctuary protects the headwaters of two major river systems and supports an abundance of hardwood vegetation and a diverse faunal assemblage.

Jimmy Carter In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

The Kissimmee Chain of Lakes is regarded as the headwaters of the Kissimmee - Okeechobee - Everglades system.

She lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

by Walter Chaw I watched Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water in a packed auditorium in Telluride, CO as a torrential rainstorm pounded the roof of what is, outside of the festival, an ice - skating rink, perched there with a park in front of it, the headwaters of the San Miguel to one side and the mountains to the other and all around.

It's interesting to think that the»70s horror cycle was primarily concerned with bad parenting — particularly with the headwaters of the paranoid»70s being the generation rift»60s — but its treatment in The Boogeyman is so weighted with import that it paradoxically loses any potential gravity.

Before pursuing my PhD, I co-produced two environmental documentaries about mining development proposed at the headwaters of the world's largest remaining sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska.

Glaciers are at the headwaters of several of Asia's major water systems and have an impact on drinking water, irrigation, food, and hydropower for billions of people.

Today, 114 wolves roam the wild headwaters of the Gila River in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

But beginning in 1953, several populations were discovered in the headwaters of the South Platte River and Arkansas River in Colorado.

I have also heard the concerns of tribal people in a remote corner of western Ethiopia, where Indian and Saudi agribusinesses are taking their forests and capturing the headwaters of the Nile.

Our pilot, announcing that he could not safely land us at the headwaters of the Ivishak, put us down instead in a small mountain valley at the Marsh Fork River, some 40 miles shy of our intended departure point.

And while the Wind River Range is the headwaters of tributaries feeding the Colorado, Missouri and Snake rivers, glaciologists say the ice sheets» contributions to those basins are relatively small.

Headwater streams, which provide the coldest available habitat in many areas, are often assumed to be the ultimate refuges for coldwater species, but many of these species are also acid - sensitive — and many headwaters of the southern Appalachian region are already too acid to support them.

South Africa is a heavily populated country reliant for most of its water on neighbours that control the headwaters of rivers such as the Orange and Cunene.

From Palestinian village wells shut down by Israeli troops on the West Bank, to Turkey's damming of the headwaters of the Euphrates, which will wash a quarter of a million angry Kurds out of their homes and reduce the river's flow through Iraq by up to 80 per cent.

But decades later, a city of sorts — actually a series of settlements connected by roads — has been found at the headwaters of the Xingu River where Fawcett went missing in an area previously buried beneath the dense foliage in what is now Xingu National Park.

30 million years ago, the headwaters of the Alpine rivers were situated on a plateau with flat hillslopes, similar to what we currently find in Great Britain.