For nearly 15 years, I have explored the headwaters of a river near my home. The entire drainage area, encompassing all the streams, rainfall and snowmelt that pass into a single river, is called a ...

The Barrens darter was identified as a candidate for Endangered Species Act protection in 1994, and the Center petitioned the ...

These nonperennial headwater streams are individually small, but collectively, they make up most of the length of global stream networks, and their chemistry is consequential for downstream waters.

So, the concern here hinges on the fact that wildfires continue to get worse in the West, allowing mercury to travel more into headwater streams, and issues from there head downstream.

Small headwater streams store an exceptional amount of this dead wood and make up 70% of the river miles in the United States. From our study, ...

Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey found wildfires are increasing mercury concentrations in Pacific Northwest headwater streams. Most Popular 1 Willamette Valley woman killed in crash ...

Wildfires linked to increased mercury in Pacific Northwest headwater streams, study finds by: Michaela Bourgeois. Posted: Aug 28, 2024 / 08:00 AM PDT. Updated: Aug 28, 2024 / 10:03 AM PDT.

So, the concern here hinges on the fact that wildfires continue to get worse in the West, allowing mercury to travel more into headwater streams, and issues from there head downstream.

BOISE, Idaho — There are pretty obvious results of wildfires across Idaho and the Northwest, burn scars are maybe the easiest tell. Other impacts are not really visible to the human eye. Austin ...