Despite the fact that it must cross the watersheds diagonally--the watersheds formed by deep valleys and high rocky ridges--the line as surveyed and built is only three miles longer than an absolute air-line.
Mr. Harriman, with his transcontinentals from the Mississippi watersheds west, was almost the pioneer in this work of wholesale reconstruction.
The denuding of the watersheds of the continent goes on today the same as it did twenty-five years ago, the only consideration being whether there is a market for the timber.
Preliminary studies indicate that headwater reservoirs are needed and feasible in 61 smallwatersheds in the Basin.
In headwater areas or small urban watersheds scattered throughout the Basin, there are a number of other places where some damage takes place, whether agricultural or structural.
Evaluation of major point sources of mine drainage in the upstream watersheds of the North Branch of the Potomac River and development of mine drainage abatement measures and control programs which are technically and economically feasible.
These considerations apply to small watersheds as well as large ones.
The headwater dams are equally effective in reducing flood damages in small rural watersheds where losses warrant their installation.
In the category of reservoirs, at the other end of the spectrum are the comparatively small headwater dams that the Soil Conservation Service has been designing and supervising for three decades in authorized watersheds throughout the country.
To them, sediment control and respect for the way watersheds work, even with cost-sharing, is likely to loom as simply an extra expense.
Small watersheds often do have unity of this human sort, but very few major river basins.
In the ninth century, deforestation and excessive exploitation had so far progressed that not only the need of protecting watersheds was recognized by edicts, but fear of a timber famine led even to planting in the provinces of Noto.
There are 22 rivers which wend their way from the watersheds of the canal, and pour their loads of sand and silt into it.
The water-supply system of the Canal Zone consists of a number of reservoirs on the watersheds of the Isthmus where no human habitations are allowed, and where trespassing is forbidden.
In Central Africa, between the watersheds of the Nile, Congo and Zambesi, there is scarcely a large native state that does not shelter in its forests scattered groups of dwarf hunter folk variously known as Watwa, Batwa, and Akka.
The most prominent of these watersheds is Polis Mountain, extending along the eastern and southern sides of the area; it is supposed to reach a height of over 7,000 feet.
The area is well in the center of northern Luzon and is cut off by watersheds from other territory, except on the northeast.
For example, in Utah there are watersheds where, on account of the burning of the forests and the over-grazing of slopes, torrent conditions are already definitely established.
Similarly, such coupling up is obviously advantageous in two neighboring watersheds where the excess water-power occurs at different times.
If the difference between these two extremes be rightly estimated by the present writer, the former should prevail along the courses, the latter on the watersheds of the rivers.
In some of her largest valleys the floods have resulted primarily from the denudation of the mountains and the destruction of the woodland and forest cover on the watersheds of the rivers.
Such planting is still confined chiefly to watershedswhich supply cities and towns with water.
Since then similar work has been done on city watersheds in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico.
There was a letter from a correspondent on the subject of the watersheds of Central South Africa, and he was reading it with attention.
The watersheds of Omofaga were not given their due.
Cols or watersheds at the heads of the glens--once the westward outlet of the lakes.
On some exposed watersheds the winds carry off as much as ninety per cent of the annual precipitation.
Forests so regulate stream-flow that if all the watersheds were forested but few floods would occur.
The wheel has removed watershedsat pleasure, created cities and fortunes by its presence or its taking thought.
But if you look at the plan more carefully, you will see that we do not go over such watersheds by means of locks, but under them by means of tunnels.
One of these watersheds I accidentally knew something of, as we had passed a part of it on our journey hither, and a part of it we had seen in some of our excursions.
So sharply is the line drawn in some places, that on the dividing watersheds of the east coast flocks of galar parrots and plain-pigeons will be found feeding on the western slope of a ridge, but never by any chance crossing on to the eastern.
After Murato the track had descended sharply, only to mount again to the heights dividing the watersheds of the Bevinco and the Golo.
De Vasselot had been crossing watersheds all night, climbing out of one valley only to descend into another, crossing river after river with a monotony only varied by the various dangers of the bridges.
These greater trails lay largely on the watersheds which the buffalo found with great certainty.
The watersheds have been the highways and highestways of the world's travel.
But may we not believe that the great watersheds were to them what they have been for every other race which has occupied this land?
For centuries this path had been a famed thoroughfare, throwing its great sinuous lengths over the watersheds from the lakes to the "Forks of the Ohio.
But the moose and deer and buffalo required new feeding-grounds, fresh salt licks and change of climate, and the great roads they broke open across the watersheds declare nothing if not a need.
Cyrus Thomas, it is plain that the mound-building Indians were well acquainted with the watersheds and high lands in the regions which they occupied.
The sudden and violent changes of weather that take place among these watersheds would almost seem to be cause enough to explain the wearing down of the angularities of the heights.
It is because the hills are so big that the valleys are deep and it is owing to the great watersheds that these long and narrow dales are beautified by some of the most copious and picturesque rivers in England.
And those two heads o'er the watersheds Of the Thames and Lea do hover, Till a noxious brewage of slime and sewage Is the draught of the water-lover.
The watersheds tributary to many of the large western cities and towns are under special protection by the Forest Service.
Closely bound up with the protection of watersheds is the erosion problem.
While the reforestation of the watersheds of streams important for irrigation and municipal water supply has a large financial value, this value is hard to estimate because it involves not actual cash profit but loss prevented.
Large sums are not, however, being spent on such watersheds where any uncertainty as to the outcome exists; that is before successful methods have been perfected by experiment.
The watersheds from which the necessary water comes are in the National Forests and are protected by the Forest Service.
The protection of these valuable watersheds by the Forest Service from fire and destructive lumbering is of such vital importance to the welfare of the nation that it has been made one of the main reasons for establishing National Forests.
The watersheds of streams supplying water for irrigation, municipal or domestic purposes may be closed to grazing of any or all kinds of domestic stock when necessary to prevent erosion and floods or diminution in water supply.
Most of this area is on the watersheds of western streams and rivers and the fact that it is denuded is a dangerous menace to the equable flow of the rivers which drain those areas.
In accordance with the policy outlined by the Forest Service watersheds used for municipal supply or irrigation continue to receive first consideration.
The forest cover on the twowatersheds is practically identical.
He invites the streams of Five Watersheds to witness his su-su-su-pernal incompetence, and then he talks as though there were untold reserves of knowledge behind him that he is too modest to bring forward.
That's to say if all the Five Watersheds are agreeable.
Insignificant when compared with the watersheds that drain to the seas, about 125 square miles of the country drain into a few small salt lakes that have no outflowing water.
The 335-mile border with Yugoslavia was drawn in an attempt to follow the high ridges separating the watersheds of the Morava and Vardar river valleys in Yugoslavia from those of the Iskur and Struma valleys in Bulgaria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watersheds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
