Rivers are a dynamic combination of water, sediment, aquatic organisms, and riparian vegetation, all participating in a complex dance from the point of origin, or headwaters, toward the ocean or ...

Field-scale experiments have also contributed valuable insights into how riparian vegetation affects flow and sediment transport. Research has demonstrated that the presence of foliage ...

A riparian corridor is the vegetation near a river ... Without watershed management and repairs, sediment and debris will continue to flow straight down the mountain and into the ocean, said ...

Channel widening results in more absorbed solar heat and sediment pollution ... including a promise that the department would plant riparian vegetation along 100% of the Lower Skagit River ...