Sentences with word «riparian»

Of these hardwood species, cottonwood is the most abundant; it is concentrated in riparian areas of central and eastern Montana.

Also known as Riparian Rights.

ESM 233 - River Restoration [2 units] Dunne Review of hydrologic, geomorphic, and engineering principles used in restoration of rivers, floodplains, and riparian zones for safety, land management, and ecosystem improvement.

They frequent a wide variety of habitats including riparian forests, woodlands along country lanes, and city parks.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

«Domestic animals, wildlife, and people congregate in riparian areas near scarce water resources, impacting these regions.

«Some of these — such as better - targeted timing and placement of nutrient inputs, modifications to livestock diets and the preservation or restoration of riparian vegetation strips — can be implemented now,» they wrote.

«Los Angeles mountain lions hunt closer to human settlements than expected: While male lions prey on deer in riparian woodlands, females hunt on average less than a mile from human development.»

This would involve stimulating water saving in agriculture, relocating intensive farming to less environmentally sensitive areas and reducing diffuse pollution, increasing the recycling of water, increasing the efficiency of water allocation among different users, favouring the recharge of aquifers and restoring riparian vegetation, among others (Alvarez Cobelas et al., 2005).

Along the waterfront we were able to view current riparian restoration efforts, permeable surface walkways, and views of Ross Island Natural Area and Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge across the Willamette.

The initiative, founded and led by Aliança da Terra, will reward ranchers who maintain their legal forest reserves (Brazilian law requires landowners to keep 80 percent of their land forested), establish fire breaks and riparian buffer zones, and take other measures to minimize the impact of their operations.

The Green Belt Movemnet (GBM) is mobilizing rural households to intensively restore natural resources on their farms and on riparian reserves with special focus on soil, water and diversity of trees and crops grown.

His quest began when a legal historian, the late professor Hans W. Baade asked the library to acquire the first edition of Battista Aimo's De alluvionum iure universo (1580)'s treatise on riparian water rights, When the book arrived, he was surprised by the many woodcuts.

Besides that, especially on weekends, the women of riparian communities that were studied act strongly in community associations, in actions and activities with the aim of bringing development and improvement of life conditions of the communities, this is a women's exclusive task.

The five species of native black walnut trees and butternut trees are also important ecological components of riparian corridors across the United States where they provide a key food source for wildlife,» explains Seybold.

Pilot Study on the Effects of Partially Restored Riparian Plant Communities on Habitat Quality and Biodiversity along First - Order Tributaries of the Lower St. Johns River

Raptors (hunters like Cooper's hawks and American kestrels), fish (threatened Puget Sound Chinook salmon, Cutthroat trout, Coho salmon), and mammals (red foxes, river otters, Pacific shrews) can be found among the Black River Riparian Forest's cottonwood trees, deciduous shrubs, and the P - 1 Pond.

Habitats are savanna woodlands with a perennial grass layer, dissected by riparian vegetation along the edges of creeks.

Elevations in Austin Creek SRA range from 150 to 1,500 feet (46 to 457 m), giving rise to a variety of habitats, including riparian area, chaparral, and woodlands of conifers and oaks.

Today we have our own publishing business: Knowledge Access Books and a subsidiary for our business clients called Riparian Press.

Turns out, it uses roughly the same amount of water as native riparian trees like willows and cottonwoods.

The Browns Canyon area represents one of the only riparian ecosystems along the Arkansas River that remains relatively undisturbed and contains an intact biotic community.

These tours include a Pacuare River canopy tour, an adventure river tour in a striking riparian setting, a daylong activity tour, a tour of the tropical canyon and the thoughtful One World Expedition «Plant a Tree» activity.

You can exchange out of or into any of the following asset types: single family, multi-family, commercial office, retail shopping, industrial, vacant land, oil and gas interests, mineral rights, riparian water rights, and tenant - in - common investments.

This perspective was shared in the same article by Gary Langham, chief scientist of the National Audubon Society, who stressed that «loss of habitat is the number one problem» as riparian habitat and wetlands continue to be removed or converted for human use.

Her work has focused on improving riparian, dune, grassland, and coastal habitats for a number of the park's endangered species, as well as creating more sustainable and improved visitor access experiences within those watersheds.

The 8,300 - acre Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve protects unique ecosystems like rare oak savannah and woodlands, riparian wetlands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and bunchgrass prairie.

Jean McLain's study in Arizona examined resistance levels to 16 antibiotics in bacteria isolated from riparian soils in a wetland that had been recharged with wastewater for over 30 years.

Researchers learned that decomposition in the thin riparian soils was slower than they hoped.

Allyson Jackson will study the importance of emergent aquatic insects to riparian bird diversity.

In and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogether.

Rather, the goal is balance — revegetating the riversides with native riparian willows and cottonwoods or, if current hydrology and a changing climate just won't support those flood - adapted plants, perhaps relying on native grasses and shrubs.

The impacts of runoff and soil moisture deficits associated with warm temperatures can be acute, including enhanced wildfire risk (21), land subsidence from excessive groundwater withdrawals (22), decreased hydropower production (23), and damage to habitat of vulnerable riparian species (24).

A positive sign also comes from the recent Declaration on the sustainability of Mediterranean fisheries signed by 15 fisheries ministers of riparian countries (MedFish4Ever).

Our route descends from the pines into lush riparian area and turns north.

Cappelle, M.J. et al., 2008b, 2008 Annual NMSBA Report: Desalination Technology for Coal Bed Natural Gas Produced Water, Treatment and (1) Rangeland Rehabilitation (2) Riparian Improvement.

The oak spp. forests of western Oregon and northwestern California are not riparian and were quite extensive before European cultivation and fire suppression.

Restoring woodlands and streams: Through photosynthesis, trees and streamside plants protect riparian habitat and pull carbon from the atmosphere back into the soil creating cleaner waterways and root systems, which reduces erosion during floods.

For years the NPS tried a philosophy of «Natural Regulation» of ungulates, but claimed its failure to succeed in reestablishing riparian willow and nearby aspen was an artifact of «climate change».

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

The urban riparian stream education program is managed by the Texas Water Resources Institute, part of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, AgriLife Extension and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University.

Wetlands, lakes, and other riparian areas are responsible for more than 70 % of annual CH4 emissions from northern land regions, whereas seeps, fires, and fossil fuel burning account for the remainder (Figure 2).

GBM is using bamboo for riparian conservation to promote water quality within the watershed.

The lodge also organizes an exciting assortment of optional tours, including a Pacuare River canopy tour, an adventure river tour in a striking riparian setting, a daylong activity tour, a tour of the tropical canyon and the thoughtful One World Expedition «Plant a Tree» activity.

Park botanists and dedicated volunteers have begun the labor intensive task of reestablishing riparian areas by planting more than 400,000 native plants in the newly exposed sediment.

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At the regional scale, a downstream riparian state can conduct year - to - year monitoring to see whether upstream neighbours are establishing new impoundments.

In western North America, true deciduous forests are strictly riparian and therefore limited.