A Perspective on America's Vanishing Streams
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of the North American Benthological Society
- Vol. 9 (1) , 77-88
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1467936
Abstract
The free-flowing nature of streams in the U.S. has been dramatically altered over the past century, especially through construction of dams. The Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI) estimated a total of 5,200,000 km of streams in the contiguous 48 states, but only 2% (200 km remaining in the 48 contiguous states. With continuing threats of exploitation, major conservation efforts are required to preserve these last free-flowing streams.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: