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An image depicts the planting of cover crops, which grow during the winter season to stabilize the soil until the spring growing season.
Cover Crops as a Key Watershed Stewardship…
Lower Mississippi land use is dominated by developed, forested and cropland areas, and has the largest proportion of wetlands of the entire Mississippi River Basin.
Lower Mississippi Land Cover Map
A diagram showing best management practices required to target the numerous sources and delivery pathways of excess nutrient loads.
Targeted Practices Diagram
Wood chip mulch pile.
Wood chip mulch
Conceptual diagram illustrating a stake with an attached roosting block placed in an area with damaged seagrasses. Roosting birds defecate into the water adding nutrients that stimulate seagrass growth and recovery across the damaged area.
Bird stake installation
Conceptual diagram illustrating density and change in species of seagrasses in Florida Bay following long-term (left column) and short-term (right column) fertilization after the installation of bird roosting stakes in a turtle grass bed.
Change in seagrasses after bird stake installation
Rocky Mountain wildflower in bloom
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)
Rocky Mountain wildflower in bloom
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)
Illustration map of Sequim and Discovery Bays in Washington, USA
USA WA: Sequim and Discovery Bays
Abundant blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium) provide easy pickings for humans and wildlife, Adirondack mountains of upstate NY.
Wild blueberries
Chicken farm and agricultural fields bordering wetlands on a creek off the Wicomico River.
Agricultural pressure on wetlands
Chicken farms and agricultural fields back up to wetlands on a Wicomico creek.
Agriculture bordering a Wicomico creek
Chicken farm near Salisbury, MD. Close to the Wicomico River.
Chicken farm near Salisbury, MD
Crisfield, Maryland
Crisfield, Maryland
Looking northwest at Crisfield, MD.
Crisfield, MD
Crisfield, MD
Looking southwest down on to Crisfield, MD.
Crisfield, MD
New development near Salisbury, MD.
Development near Salisbury
Forest cover near Salisbury
Forest cover
Agriculture, creeks, and forest cover in Wicomico Cty
Mixed land use in Wicomico Cty
Forest and agriculture near Salisbury.
Mixed land use near Salisbury
Mixed land use near the Wicomico
A mixture of land uses and types along the Wicomico River.
Mixed land use near the Wicomico River
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