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Watershed Initiatives

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Title Watershed Initiatives
Relation River in Common
Date 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16
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Description V. Watershed Initiatives
Hydropower is much less a factor in the tributary streams than in the mainstem. Tributaries are more often dried up by water diversions, warmed and polluted by agricultural use and grazing, and silted up by timber harvest and other land uses. An entirely different set of strategies is needed to address these problems, and many people look to watershed initiatives for answers. Watershed initiatives have been in some cases linked with the Northwest Power Act or the...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1336

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