What is a watershed? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
网页What is a watershed? It’s a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
Watershed - National Geographic Society
网页2024年4月15日 · A watershed is an area of land that drains or “sheds” water into a specific waterbody. Every body of water has a watershed. Watersheds drain rainfall and snowmelt into streams and rivers. These smaller bodies of water flow into larger ones, including lakes, bays, and oceans. Gravity helps to guide the path that water takes across the landscape.
Watersheds and Drainage Basins | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
网页2019年6月8日 · A watershed is an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
Science in Your Watershed: Locate Your Watershed By HUC - USGS
网页Locate Your Watershed Mapping Interface for Science in Your Watershed of the U.S. Geological Survey
Watersheds | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
网页2024年1月10日 · A watershed is an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
Watersheds (U.S. National Park Service)
网页2019年2月5日 · Wherever you are, you're in a watershed. The National Park Service monitors and manages the health of watersheds.
Watersheds - Natural Resources Conservation Service
网页Building Climate Resiliency. NRCS has assisted communities with conservation in watersheds since the 1930s when the agency was born amid the Dust Bowl. NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners address natural resource concerns.
Watersheds | USDA Climate Hubs
网页A watershed is a basin, or a land area that collects and delivers water to a central point. Water moves through a watershed through soils, streams and rivers from upper elevations to lower elevations, and exists at an outflow such as …
Basic Information and Answers to Frequent Questions | US EPA
网页2024年3月18日 · A watershed – the land area that drains to one stream, lake or river – affects the water quality in the water body that it surrounds. Like water bodies (e.g., lakes, rivers, and streams), individual watersheds share similarities but also differ in …
Advancing Watershed Protection Through Land Conservation
网页2 天之前 · Land conservation, including the protection and stewardship of lands, can play a central role in efforts to protect healthy waters and maintain healthy watersheds.