Suddenly, masses of trees—junipers, little oak trees, and pinyon pines—higher up in the drainages that crease the mountainside.
Many trees prefer canyons to exposed slopes because soils are deeper there and drainages offer more water.
The Emory oak also prefers high drainages but it grows at slightly lower elevations.
In the summer of 1959, I trapped turtles and with a specimen in hand inquired about softshells occurring in the inlanddrainages of northern Mexico.
Flooded conditions in August of 1959 permitted trapping in only one of the inland drainages of northwestern Chihuahua, the Rio Santa Maria; only specimens of Kinosternon were obtained.
If so, they may have entered Pacific Coast drainages by stream capture across the Continental Divide.
In Utah, populations of sirtalis occur in the drainages of the Bear, Weber and Sevier rivers and other smaller streams of the western half of the state.
Records are lacking from the drainages of the Republican, North Canadian, Brazos and Colorado River drainages in the High Plains, but possibly isolated populations occur in some of these also.
The eastern boundary of the Athabascans runs north along the ridge separating the drainages of the North Fork and Middle Fork of the Eel until it reaches the headwaters of the Mad River.
It runs north and south along Bald Hills Ridge, dividing the drainages of Redwood Creek and the Trinity River.
All northern specimens are from the drainages of Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake, but these specimens from Sevier County are from the Sevier River Drainage.
This species requires a fairly moist environment, and such habitat exists between the aforementioned drainages which are practically interconnected by Mona Reservoir and its adjacent areas of springs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drainages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
