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Our organization Nature Iraq does really important work to support the Mesopotamian Marshlands. Our work has changed the environment for the better. For thousands of years, the marshlands influenced the culture by Giving them a flooded marsh that has animals to hunt like fish for food. Also, the marshes provide the culture with fresh water and trading goods that the culture makes. There are reeds in the marshes that the people use to make houses and blankets so houses don't get cold. Also, the

St Mary’s county is considered to be part of the Western Shore and extends from Charlotte Hall to its most Southern tip at Point Lookout. The peninsula is bordered by the Potomac Rivers, the Patuxent River on the northeast and the Chesapeake Bay to the east making it an ideal spot for abundant water activities such as fishing, jet skiing, water skiing, kayaking, and paddle boarding. The concern is that the access to these waterways is limited, especially in Leonardtown. Local water enthusiasts desiring

the increase in refuges coupled with excellent habitat in the birds entire range. It is estimated that there is nearly 900,000 ha of rice fields over the snow goose’s winter range (Abraham and Jeffries 1998). This is in addition to the typical salt marsh wintering ground. Abraham and Jeffries suggest that farther to the North in states like Nebraska and North Dakota the conversion of grassland prairie into cereal grains has provided a tremendous amount of food for the geese. In addition it has also

Guidelines for Fences within the Wetlands Conservation District (Adopted MM/DD/YY) The detailed plan and application shall address the following items: 1. Provide a statement on the type of materials to be used to construct the fence. 2. Identify the location and height of the proposed fence. 3. No fence post shall be placed in a wetland or surface water body. 4. The fence must be at least 6 inches off the ground to allow natural drainage flow, prevent the blocking or damming of surface water and

concern is wetland loss created by increased amounts of open water on the marsh surface. The literature suggests that on average, healthy New England marshes have 9% permanent open water on their surface. However, an open water assessment indicates an average of 47% permanent open water on the marshes studied (Kirwan 2013). In Long Island, the marshes are wetter and vegetated areas are shifting from high marsh to low marsh or to mud flat, which are far less productive and give fewer services than

St Mary’s County is considered to be part of the Western Shore and extends from Charlotte Hall to its most Southern tip at Point Lookout. The peninsula is bordered by the Potomac River on the southeast, the Patuxent River on the northeast and the Chesapeake Bay (cite) to the east making it an ideal spot for abundant water activities such as fishing, jet skiing, water skiing, kayaking, and paddle boarding. The concern is that the access to these waterways is limited, especially in Leonardtown. Local

throughout the years from $30 million to $80 million per year. This money funds the projects to be able to provide for long-term conservation of the wetlands and their inhabitants. In these funded projects, a variety of techniques are used including marsh creation and restoration, shoreline protection, hydraulic restoration, beneficial use of dredged material, terracing, sediment trapping, vegetative planting, barrier island restoration, and bank stabilization. Every restoration project can use one

Last time I visited Blackwater it was the middle of July. It was hot, humid and swarmed with flies. The marshes were singing their sounds of life and the smell of mud wafted in the air. After a quick visit to the refuge, my uncle took my family out on the boat. To get to the boat we drove 30 mins down past the refuge to the middle of nowhere. It was eerie. Many houses were abandoned overgrown, and lonely. The road turned to dirt. Entire towns were left to dust. Ponds of flooded water sat idly on

Kylie McGovern Professor Ted Maney Bio 131 L24 10 October 2014 The Salt Marsh Ecosystem 　　A Salt Marsh is an extremely important ecosystem. It is home to a variety of both plants and animals. Salt Marshes have distinct characteristic that separate them from other ecosystems. These characteristics force any plant or animal living there to have ways to adapt to the sometimes extreme environments in order to survive and thrive. Salt Marshes are not only biologically important, they also have economic

LFA WORD COUNT: INTRODUCTION: Our sites (Figure 1.) were spread along the lowest reach of Merri Creek before it runs into the Yarra River. As a direct result of this there is an extensive valley from the constant presence of fluvial processes over geological time. The landform patterns at our sites were extensively governed by the movement and availability of water, with escarpments, gullies, cliffs and spurs of varying steepness all observed. Figure 1. Topographic map of the meandering