Rivers

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

river-lot farms, canoed and fished on the lakes and rivers, and travelled the plains on the great bison hunts formed around the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in the first half of the nineteenth century was of farm lots bordering the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Governor Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota described


Columbia Basin Trust · 11 April 2024 English

We will listen and seek to understand the voices of First Nations and Métis • Being accountable to Basin residents, Peoples in the Basin so that their and to the …

ColumRevelstoke bia Columbia River Treaty Dams Rivers self-sufficiency for present Direction of Water valued by residents and include Indigenous have—the rivers engagement and participation. • Recognize the importance


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

pursued a sense of belonging living in cities, with rivers, other Métis folk, with activities such as beading


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we both hear and fail to hear insufficiency, loss, incompleteness, and other …

to its own listenings and jostlings within the rivers of the body and the body of the world. However pitch In fact you are a morphology of subdermal rivers of channels & tubing through which the dead visit nothing is normal Nothing belongs.29 All the rivers moving through their thought processes probably


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with …

body. I didn’t question the gold hardening its rivers inside me. Boy on the phone for you, my sister


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. …

villages on the Pacific Coast, with trade along rivers as well as a network of trails used to transport


Alberta WaterSMART Solutions · 1 April 2024 English

This showcases the dedication of water managers and advocates in the SSRB to strategic water resource management, and it has improved the water management outlook of the SSRB. [...] For …

(BROM) The BROM includes Elbow, Highwood, and Sheep Rivers’ operations, including large off-stream canals Tributaries (the Belly, Waterton, and St. Mary Rivers). The base case relates the river's current operations the changing volume and timing of flow in major rivers within the SSRB. Given the goal for the climate growth, and enhancing environmental flows in the rivers. Because each of these uses of water has its own constructed wetlands or riparian buffers along rivers. Unlike built infrastructure, which tends to provide


Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy · 28 March 2024 English

WDC oversees the leasing of land for the Dakota Dunes Casino, as well as the ownership and operation of the Dakota Dunes Golf Links, Whitecap Convenience Store, Whitecap Industrial Services, …

Souris, Red, and North and South Saskatchewan rivers serving as vital trade routes. The horse, buffalo


Alberta WaterSMART Solutions · 28 March 2024 English

This report provides a brief overview of the SROI methodology, project approach, the objectives and activities of the options, and the key findings and assumptions made when completing the analysis. …

growth, and enhancing environmental flow in the rivers. The analysis is from a comparative and predictive and 3. by stabilizing environmental flows in the rivers to support ecosystems and recreational uses. The preserved, resources environmental flows in the rivers, and conditions conserved areas, ag-related enhancements referred to improved ecosystems, especially in the rivers. Healthier river flows enhance fish populations Number of visitors per year is 347.00 10 value of rivers sounds, and smells of nature. multiplied by the


Fraser Institute · 28 March 2024 English

With the federal carbon tax set to rise from $65 to $80 per tonne on April 1, two new essays—published today by the Fraser Institute—make two opposing arguments, to retain …

emissions reductions, see, for instance, Murray and Rivers (2015), which shows that BC’s carbon tax has reduced March 15, 2024. Murray, Brian C., and Nicholas Rivers (2015). British Columbia’s Revenue-Neutral Carbon


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