Focused On Watersheds

While birds too birding are the subjects of most posts inwards this blog, I am personally most interested inwards ecosystems too inwards the landscapes that they occupy.  Landscapes are the products of geology, tectonic forces too erosion, the latter occurring primarily past times the activity of H2O or ice.  Terrestrial ecosystems reverberate the underlying geology too topography, the regional climate too the availability of H2O (in the plane of atmospheric precipitation or surface H2O brought inwards past times streams).

It is alongside this noesis that I focus on watersheds every bit I move close our province or the basis too fifty-fifty pay closed attending to them inside my abode cities.  Water, later on all, is both essential to life too the primary architect of natural landscapes.  Understanding the regional topography requires that nosotros know its subdivision watersheds, from the principal rivers to their smallest tributaries.

In the U.S., simply about States greatly assistance our endeavour past times using route signage to demarcate the watersheds (North Carolina too Tennessee come upwardly to mind) spell other States neglect to label all but their largest streams.  Others, similar Colorado, compulsively label passes, streams too elevations but are lax when it comes to watersheds.  The to a greater extent than nosotros empathize our natural landscapes too ecosystems, the to a greater extent than committed nosotros volition hold out to protecting them.