A brief report on the study of governmental organization for the water resources of the Delaware River Basin

A brief abstract of the study on water resources administration made by the Syracuse University Research Group, giving the basic recommendations of the study and the reasoning behind them.

Proposed dams on Missouri river watershed? Navigation, hydro-electric, flood control, irrigation

Mode of access: Internet.

Along the Saline River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Winter Along the Saline River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Bridge Across Saline River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Young Men & Women by River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

People Preparing Food by River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

People in Swimming Attire by River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Man by River

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

A report on the development of the Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee /

"September 1950."

Including Cumberland river basin in T.V.A. Hearings, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 1539.

Mode of access: Internet.

TVA and the Clinch River breeder reactor project : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regional and Community Development of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, April 20, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references.

A history of navigation on the Tennessee river system; an interpretation of the economic influence of this river system on the Tennessee vally. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a survey entitled "A history of navigation on the Tennessee river and its tributaries" ...

Referred to the Committee on military affairs and ordered printed with illustrations May 19, 1937.

Human disturbance and forest diversity in the Tansa Valley, India

We assessed the diversity of woody plants at 15 forested sites in the Tansa Valley of Thane District, in Maharashtra, India. The fewest species (11) were seen at a degraded mangrove site near the river mouth, and the greatest number (150) in the rich semi-evergreen forest on Tungar Hill. For all sites there were 141 tree, 25 shrub and 15 liana species, a total of 181 species. Excluding the mangrove site, which had no species in common with the other 14 sites, we analyzed the species distributions in detail. 2 These sites ranged in area from 4 to 30 km each, had woody floras of 89 6 6 species, and varied in intensity of human impact. Despite a history of exploitation and substantial reduction in biomass from firewood collecting, set fires and illicit tree felling, considerable plant diversity remains in the area.We found a modest increase in species richness in transects away from two villages. We observed the exploitation of the forest by the principal users, primarily of the Warli Tribe. They exploited a wide variety of forest resources (92 species), for medicines, foods, construction materials, household goods, manure and other purposes. They collected 15 items for sale. By far the single most important item collected was firewood, which dramatically reduced forest biomass within 2 km of villages. The species distributions in these forest remnants are strongly nested, mostly due to varying degrees of disturbance at individual sites. The high species diversity on Tungar Hill is most likely a relict of the earlier character of forests throughout much of the valley. It merits the highest priorities for preservation, as a refuge for Western Ghat species at the northern limits of their distributions.

Palaeo-geoecological significance of Pleistocene trees in the Lluta Valley, Atacama Desert

In the Lluta Valley, northern Chile, climate is hyperarid and vegetation is restricted to the valley floors and lowermost footslopes. Fossil tree trunks and leaves of predominantly Escallonia angustifolia, however, are abundant up to ∼15 m above the present valley floor, where they are intercalated with slope deposits, reflecting higher water levels in the past. A total of 17 samples have been radiocarbon dated, yielding ages between 38 and 15k cal a BP. The youngest ages of 15.4k cal a BP are interpreted as reflecting the beginning of river incision and lowering of the valley floor, impeding the further growth of trees at higher parts of the slopes. The most plausible scenario for this observation is intensified river incision after 15.4k cal a BP due to increased stream power and runoff from the Río Lluta headwaters in the Western Cordillera and Altiplano corresponding to the highstand of the Tauca and Central Andean Pluvial Event (CAPE) wet phase.