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    it's wings, back and front, are also white. It has a sharp, orange beak. Lifestyle-These birds live in large groups, mostly consisting of over 100 of them. Habitat-These birds live in floodplains and wet grasslands. This probably means their diet consists of fish. Food-Since the Magpie Goose lives in floodplains and wet grasslands, this means that they eat food that comes from the water, like fish. Their name also might come from the fact that they eat fish, because most geese live around…

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    Flooding in Howard County Flooding in Howard County has been an ongoing issue. Due to flooding, the county sees issues such as pollution and property damage that endanger the lives of people. And there are many reasons why floods have been a major issue. One can point to the failure of dams in the city. Another reason is due to riverine flooding. A combination of the failure of dams, river flooding, and many flood plains are why floods are a hazard in Howard County and can endanger the lives of…

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    Charles County, the area continued to grow through the 20th century; the construction of the Alton Lock/Dam and Interstate 70 helped to increase development in the 1940s and 1950s. It is worth noting that most of the new development was located in the floodplain. By the 1960s there were two main groups in the area: the poor, who lived close to the Mississippi River or in mobile homes and the farmers, who had a higher economic status. In this chapter, Steinberg also elaborates on the…

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    The Nile really affected settlement. They all settled near floodplains for the rich soil and silt. The silt helped them grow, harvest, and plant crops. They most commonly planted flax, wheat, barley, figs, melons, pomegranates, and dates. The silt very much so helped nourish the plants. But the downside about this floodplain is every year the must harvest every food to so they could eat during the flood season. Survival was very difficult here…

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    At this respect ; Land use planning which includes objectives, polices, and proposals for the type and intensity of land use (A. O. Waananen);and as Berkea & Gavin Smith (2009) argued: ‘’Land use planning provides an important means to achieve mitigation by influencing human settlement patterns as its analytical tools and policy recommendations are inherently geospatial in nature affecting the location, type and density of development’’. (Berkea and Smith 2009; p2) However, in case of ambiguous…

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    of the Mississippi River and the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. Freudenburg goes in depth in both examples, but specifically, about the Mississippi River, he shines the light on the dark federal groups and agencies that promote development on floodplains and wetlands. The government makes hazardous land valuable, despite the cost society has to pay for it. On the other hand, when Freudenburg exemplifies the Hurricane Katrina disaster he writes how the development of the Mississippi River Gulf…

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    People with grandfathered rates are not being charged for the actual risk of flooding but for the risk before the flood zone was mapped (and updated). It is unfair to those who live in households that live outside floodplains. Through their tax dollars, they are subsidizing a number of homeowners who own property near coasts, lakes, and other water areas. Legislation needs to create an effective change so that flood insurance is fair to all people. There are many people…

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    The American River is the second largest tributary to the Sacramento River, a critical component of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta system. The Lower portion of the American River Watershed begins at Folsom Dam and flows about 30 miles to its confluence with the Sacramento River near downtown Sacramento. The watershed size is about 1875square miles with a watershed length of 30miles. The average annual precipitation is about 23inches.The Folsom Dam, which is within the…

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    if that means not having to develop the adaptation to flooding. Cowell (1993) found that upland forests relied on soil moisture, where lowland plants had learned the optimal time for growing and reproducing by embracing the flooding patterns. The floodplain area was closer to the Grand River, allowing the soils to have higher water holding capacity. Considering this, the woody plant species found in the lowland had adaptations that assisted them in surviving the annual floods and anaerobic…

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    Hudson Valley Ice Age

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    The last ice age happened 2 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. At this point, North America is at its normal position, north of the equator. The glacier that covered the Ice Age was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Before the Ice Age, there was a valley called the Hudson Valley. During the Ice Age a glacier scraped through the rock, which gouged out 240 meters of rock. The sediments got removed from their previous location and deposited in a huge pile, a terminal moraine in Long Island. The…

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