River plants provide ecological and environmental benefits, but they raise flood risk by blocking the flow during heavy rain. Removing woody riparian vegetation patches is a primary flood ...

“A lot of those native plants will then start to produce their own seed.” In some areas, particularly on the north side of the river in the Iron Gate reservoir footprint, free-ranging horses ...

Macomb County waterways are important to people, as evidenced by the growing popularity of River Day. What had been a one-day ...

causing the Colorado River to deplete. But native edible plants rely on Tucson’s monsoon for their water supply, requiring less supplemental water than non-native plants. Regalado said she ...

All around the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant ... which can drastically increase the amount of water for the plants to treat, thanks to an aged sewer system that lets rainwater in.