Make sure each question has a minimum of 150 words response.
1. What are wetlands? Why are they so important for the health of an ecosystem?
2. What are the roles of riparian buffer strips in protecting streams and lakes? Describe one of them.
3. What is the Clean Air Act? Provide two important points that have really helped improve the air quality in the US in the last few decades.
4. What is the Safe Drinking Water Act? How does it help improve our understanding and management practices of watersheds?
5. Describe the role of large-woody materials in stream dynamics and know the source of large-woody materials in and adjacent to the stream channel.
6. Explain why it is important to know instream flow requirements in managing riparian communities.
7. What are the hydrologic impacts that can result from the fragmentation of wild land watersheds in their conversion to agricultural croplands or urban development?
8. What are the possible impacts of future climatic variability on hydrologic processes and the management of watershed?