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  • noun Plural form of watershed.

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  • Apparently, most of the road closures are to roads that risk sedimentation in watersheds, which affects both bear and of course the trout on which they feed.

    Grizzly Plan Could Deny Hunter Access 2009

  • Apparently, most of the road closures are to roads that risk sedimentation in watersheds, which affects both bear and of course the trout on which they feed.

    Grizzly Plan Could Deny Hunter Access 2009

  • I was looking through them again this week, and found an article that has some strong reminders of why paying attention to watersheds is important: "Sending Their Sons Into Danger: Cornell University and the Ithaca Typhoid Epidemic of 1903."

    Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives 2003

  • I was looking through them again this week, and found an article that has some strong reminders of why paying attention to watersheds is important: "Sending Their Sons Into Danger: Cornell University and the Ithaca Typhoid Epidemic of 1903."

    Living in Dryden: Used Books, Creeks, and Typhoid 2003

  • King salmon rules are still liberal, but summer anglers on the Naknek River cannot keep a rainbow longer than 18 inches: all the better for catching and releasing 30-inchers in watersheds awash in superlatives.

    BRISTOL BAY: Furious Fishing 1999

  • Merchant-Masonbrink said the agency plans to include lake testing in its more comprehensive pollution surveys of stream drainage systems, called watersheds, starting in 2010.

    dispatch.com: RSS 2009

  • A 106-page feasibility study released today by the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes says separating the watersheds is the only way to stop the transfer of some invasive species.

    WBAY Action 2 News 2008

  • A 106-page feasibility study to be released Wednesday by the Alliance for the Great Lakes says separating the watersheds is the only way to stop the transfer of some invasive species, including the voracious Asian carp now within 50 miles of Lake Michigan.

    The Mining Journal 2008

  • The “natural capital” of ecosystem services (such as watersheds, which provide clean water) is drawn down, creating a need to pay for services (like water filtration plants) that could have been provided for free, in perpetuity, if sustainably managed. [

    Environment and Globalization~ The Five Propositions 2007

  • 'watersheds' do not apply, can be tricky for broadcasters to negotiate.

    The most recent News from Computeractive 2010

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