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New River drainage basin. Kanawha River (WV) New River. Bluestone River; East River; Wolf Creek; Walker Creek. Little Walker Creek; Kimberling Creek; Sinking Creek; Little River (New River tributary) Pine Creek (Floyd County, Virginia) West Fork Little River; Peak Creek; Big Reed Island Creek. Cripple Creek; Crooked Creek. Beaverdam Creek ...
The natural environment of Virginia encompasses the physical geography and biology of the U.S. state of Virginia. Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.67 km 2), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km 2) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area. [1]
This stream operating together with its environment can be thought of as forming a river ecosystem. River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts.
The Red-cockaded woodpecker is endemic to the flatwoods ecosystem and the Blackwater River is the northern range of this woodpecker. [3] Many species of reptiles and amphibians depend on the long leaf pine ecosystem. [4] The Blackwater River is one of the few locations in Virginia that has over thirty species of amphibians. [5]
The brackish water stream, labeled on topographic maps as Dragon Swamp, [1] is fed by underground springs, surface runoff, and numerous feeding swamps. [2] In a study of 232 rivers and streams in the Chesapeake Bay, the Nature Conservancy and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found the Dragon Run to rank second in terms of ecological significance.
The report stated that the bay was an "ecosystem in decline" and cited numerous instances of declines in the populations of oysters, crabs, freshwater fish and other wildlife. [84] [85] The growing concerns about pollution also prompted the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia to establish the Chesapeake Bay Commission, an advisory body, in ...
Broad Run (Loudoun County, Virginia) Broad Run (Occoquan River tributary) Browns Dan River; Brush Creek (Banister River tributary) Brushy Fork (Pauls Creek tributary) Buffalo Creek (Appomattox River tributary) Buffalo Creek (Maury River tributary) Buffalo River (Virginia) Bull Run (Occoquan River tributary) Bullpasture River; Bush River ...
Smith Creek (also known as Smith's Creek [1]) is a 35.5-mile-long (57.1 km) [2] tributary stream of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Its watershed comprises 106 square miles (270 km 2) within Shenandoah and Rockingham counties on the western slope of the Massanutten Mountain ridge.