Stream
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A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, burn, creek, crick, kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, or run. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and they serve as corridors for fish and wildlife migration. The biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction event, streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats and thus in conserving biodiversity. Stream is an umbrella term used in the scientific community for all flowing natural waters, regardless of size. The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is a core element of environmental geography.

LR

--- In anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com, Dan Mouer <dan.mouer(-at-)...> wrote:
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> It never ceases to amaze me how concepts can shift from place to place.
> Here in the the tidewater part of Virginia we have virtually unnamed
> creeks that are a quarter-mile across, and the James River at its mouth
> is 3 miles across. Your Rouge River is a pretty stream running in a
> pretty wood, nonetheless.
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> Dan
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> Larry Robert Fischer wrote:
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> > The rouge river runs through our neighborhood and 200 miles beyond.
> > Wayne, MI
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> > Canon Twins, SPM, SDM, HDR
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> > LR
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