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Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States is a scientific report and policy recommendation written by American explorer, geologist, and anthropologist John Wesley Powell, and first published in 1878. The work sought to create an equitable and sustainable method for developing the arid region of the United States, an area ...
Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydro-logical continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.
The Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board GWEB) was established in 1987 and began accepting applications to fund watershed improvement projects in November of that year. [3] The World of Coos Bay reported the board's charge: The Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board, created by the 1987 Legislature, is accepting applications for projects.
Later in 2022, environmental protection groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Watersheds project and the Sierra Club challenged the BLM’s proposal to expand livestock grazing in the protected area. In a lawsuit, they questioned whether cattle grazing was compatible with protecting against excess erosion and ...
The 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act provided a way for the nation to move ahead with construction of dams and diversions without the approval of Arizona. It invited the three lower basin states to divide the waters of the Colorado with 2.8 million acre-feet to Arizona, 300,000 acre-feet to Nevada and 4.4 million acre-feet to California.
The Whippany River Watershed Action Committee (WRWAC) is a member-based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, which identifies and implements projects to preserve and protect water and the surrounding natural areas. [1] The Whippany River Watershed is an area of 69.3 square miles within Morris County in north central New Jersey
The Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program, a program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), includes Watershed Operations (under the Flood Control Act of 1944, P.L. 78- watershed projects to distinguish them from larger downstream projects built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The watershed is a roughly rectangular area of about 54 square miles (140 km 2). [2] The topography of the watershed varies greatly from the high point of about 1,100 feet (335 m) above sea level in the Boring Hills near the creek's source [11] to the low point of 26 feet (8 m) where the creek meets the Willamette River. [1]