Sentences with phrase «of headwater streams»

These «valley fills» have buried more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams and polluted many more.

Check out how mountaintop removal coal mining has destroyed over one - half million acres of forest habitat, AND has buried over 2,000 miles of headwater streams.

Not exact matches

The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline would cross more than 1000 streams and rivers, including the headwaters of the Fraser and the Skeena rivers.

Management of non-point source pollution is of great importance in the context of coffee agriculture, as this land use often coincides with headwater streams that influence water quality at the basin scale.

Our goal is to «rehydrate the landscape» by increasing the amount of rainfall that is absorbed into the ground to recharge water supplies and feed headwater streams.»

It sits in the Everglades headwaters, a zone of streams, lakes, and ranch lands stretching between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee in central Florida.

A mountain stream is usually clean and clear without color at its headwaters, but soon starts to pick up colors and contaminants as it runs down through the landscape of our modern world.

«The sediment can have a wide range of effects on a lot of watersheds, many of which are headwater streams and important for water supply in the West.»

Small headwater streams, small wetlands, and ephemeral water bodies would get greater protection under a proposed rule unveiled today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps).

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.

Current research includes studies of the food web structure and biogeochemistry of Arctic streams and rivers, nitrogen cycling in headwater streams and estuaries, and the impacts of climate change on the freshwater cycle of the Arctic.

Deep learning implies that students will follow a particular stream of inquiry to the headwaters, rather than simply sampling all the possible streams.

Yet mine - related contaminants persist in streams well below valley fills, forests are destroyed, headwater streams are lost, and biodiversity is reduced; all of these demonstrate that MTM / VF causes significant environmental damage despite regulatory requirements to minimize impacts.

The Clean Water Protection Act is a bill in the US House of Representatives which will sharply reduce mountaintop removal coal mining by protecting our headwater streams, where our rivers, like the Mississippi and the Ohio, are born.

In the past few decades, more than 2,000 miles of streams and headwaters that provide drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.

Based on that up - to - date scientific understanding of the permanent harm that would result from the destruction and burial of six miles of vital headwater streams, the downstream contamination and resulting ecological damage, and the leveling of 2,000 acres of natural mountaintop, EPA issued a final veto determination in January 2011.

It stops up headwater streams, literally the wellspring for the forest ecosystem and the point of origin for entire watersheds.

Today, more than 1,000 miles of Appalachian headwater streams have been completely buried and 300,000 acres of the world's most diverse temperate hardwood forests have been obliterated by so - called «valley fill.»

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