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Adult Hawaiian black-faced honeycreeper standing
Po'ouli (melamprosops phaesoma)
Hymenachne was introduced into northern Queensland, Australia in the 1970s to use in ponded pastures. It escaped cultivation a few years after its release in 1988. It is spreading throughout the tropical wetlands of northern Australia and is most common in the coastal wetlands of northern Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Olive hymenachne)
Illustration of a Longleaf Pine tree.
Pinus palustris (Longleaf Pine)
A 2D cross-section of US topography, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
Coast to coast USA 2D
This map depicts land use in the Missouri River sub-basin, one of the five major sub-basins of the Mississippi River.
Land use map of the Missouri River basin
This map depicts land use in the Arkansas River and Red River sub-basin, one of the five major sub-basins of the Mississippi River.
Land use in the Arkansas River and Red River…
This financial symbol represents money or the economy.
Money symbol
Equipment used to spread fertilizer on residential lawns.
Lawn Fertilizer Spreader
This front facing ladder is standing and has five steps.
Next steps
A blue spoon, knife and fork displayed on a circular gray background is representative of food.
Food
Illustration of the UK flag.
Flag: United Kingdom
Illustration of the flag for the United States of America
Flag: United States of America
This symbol shows a flattened view of the official flag of Hawaii. The flag comprises of red, white, and blue stripes and includes the British flag in the top left-hand corner.
Flag: USA Hawaii
A stylized red hibiscus flower with an orange style protruding from the center of the flower. The hibiscus is the state flower of Hawaii.
Hibiscus Flower
Goose and duck hunters build these blinds on the calm waterways of Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Duck blind
Tree roots are underminded by wave action and eventually succumb while the shoreline is eroded.
Eroded shoreline with tree snags
Stone rip-rap installed by the property owners in an attempt to prevent shoreline erosion. Hardened edges along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers reduces natural shoreline habitat that fish and other marine animals depend on for food and shelter.
Hardened shoreline prevents erosion
Found on golf courses or vacant gravell parking lots, this noisy plover is best known for its
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest in busy…
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata)
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata) occupies…
The oldest type of net used by the Chesapeake Bay watermen is called a pound net. Wooden stakes are pushed into the bottom of the Bay, spaced apart in a line that runs across the tide. Nets are strung between the stakes and along the bottom of the river, making a fish trap. In late February the pound netter starts to put in the stakes. By the middle of March he will set his nets and start fishing. Each day the waterman goes out to the pound net and scoops the fish out with a hand net. He will not remove the pound net, except for many repairs, until November.
Pound net
These traditional boats tended to the oyster fleets working the beds in the Bay, buying harvested oysters from the oystermen in the afternoon, and running those oysters to faraway markets and rail centers in Norfolk, Crisfield, Baltimore, and Washington DC, and to local shucking houses and canneries around the Bay.
Restored Chesapeake Bay oyster buy boat
A conceptual diagram illustrates the factors that cause brown tide algae blooms to occur in high magnitudes and what impacts these blooms have on the rest of the ecosystem.
Causes and Impacts of Brown Tide Algal Blooms
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…
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