There tie hacks attempted to float logs down to the Laramie River for the annual spring tie drives, and the splash dam was used to collect winter snowmelt to increase the water flow for the tie drive.

Loggers came up the rivers and floated pine logs out in spring and early summer log drives, down the Big Rib River into the Wisconsin River, down the Black River to the south, and west down the Jump and the Yellow River into the Chippewa.

As the snow melted in the spring and the river rose to navigable depth, these logs were lashed together into rafts and floated down the river to Harrisburg, Pa., where they were broken up and sold as lumber.

In the woods, hundreds of workers cut down trees, then floated the logs down the St. Lawrence River during the spring floods.

About a hundred men would come into Grafton for the winter logging season, and leave driving the logs downstream with the spring snowmelt in March or April.

The half-hour 16mm film was shot over the winter of 1930 in the logging woods and shows logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, then moves to the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill.

In a dramatic event during the spring of 1827, McCloskey was attempting to drive a team of oxen drawing a heavy load of logs when the wagon overturned and he was buried under the logs for several hours.

The species exhibits a high degree of parental care for their eggs, which are spawned in the spring and are generally laid in hollow logs or on other hard surfaces.

Common snapping turtles sometimes bask — though rarely observed — by floating on the surface with only their carapace exposed, though in the northern parts of their range they will also readily bask on fallen logs in early spring.

The Okihiki Festival is held in the spring over two consecutive years and involves people from surrounding towns dragging huge wooden logs through the streets of Ise to Naikū and Gekū.

" In the spring when snow thawed and water levels rose, the logs were rolled into the river, and the drive commenced.

In the spring of 1778, a heavy chain supported by huge logs was stretched across the Hudson from West Point to Constitution Island, opposite.

Every spring the logs are floated downstream into the Nevlingen River.

During the heyday of northern New England's logging and river drives during the turn of the last century, the spring freshet, augmented by impoundments called drive-dams or squirt-dams on far-flung upper tributaries, carried logs rolled into rivers and lakes far down the Connecticut River to mills at falls where the river was pinched by bedrock at Mount Tom.

They were floated by barge down the Nile River when the water level was high during the spring floods, and then transferred to vessels to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Roman port of Ostia.

The ice was cut by hand, floated to an ice house on the bank, and stored until spring.

Then he hunkered down on the heels of his handmade boots, peered into the orderly chaos of axle, shock absorber, and spring.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

The leaves are produced in the autumn or early spring in warm climates depending on the onset of rain and eventually die down by late spring.

Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.

At the rock, a local mother, Mrs. Schroeder, tries to tell her child, Baby Joan, to come down from the rock, when Baby Joan licks it-and a spring of water begins flowing from it.

The lake is drawn down as winter approaches, to minimize ice damage and to maximize its capacity to store heavy spring runoff.

After being shut down in the spring of 2000, it has been superseded by systems such as the American GPS and the planned European GALILEO positioning system.

In spring 1599, Elizabeth sent Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to put the revolt down.

; Vault: In the vaulting events gymnasts sprint down a runway, jump onto or perform a roundoff entry onto a springboard ( run / take-off segment ), land momentarily, inverted on the hands on the vaulting horse or vaulting table ( pre flight segment ), then spring off of this platform to a two footed landing ( post flight segment ).

; Vault: Gymnasts sprint down a runway, which is a maximum of 25 meters in length, before hurdling onto a spring board.

Geyser activity, like all hot spring activity, is caused by surface water gradually seeping down through the ground until it meets rock heated by magma.

The locals also claimed that " the same spring is said to turn wood into iron ", but Defoe put this down to the presence of " copperas " in the water.

* Lockback – Also known as the spine lock, the lockback includes a pivoted latch affixed to a spring, and can be disengaged only by pressing the latch down to release the blade.

Classical authors explained the summer flood by calculating the time it took for flood waters to move down a river, and calculating how long the Nile must have been for the waters to travel from a mountain range in the spring.

An original idea the animators had for when Marge walked through doorways was that her hair would be forced down as she walked through, then once clear of the door, it would spring back and forth.

In spring 1968, a prominent SDS spokesman, Rudi Dutschke, was gunned down in the streets ; in response, massive demonstrations took place, directed in particular against the Springer Press, which had led a campaign to vilify the students.

When spring comes, Thorhall Gamlason, the Icelander, wants to sail north round Kjalarnes to seek Vinland, while Thorfinn Karlsefni prefers to sail southward down the east coast.

In the spring of 1875 he applied for the Archaeological Travelling Studentship offered by Oxford, but, as he says in a letter to Freeman later in life, he was turned down thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Jowett and Charles Thomas Newton, two Oxford dons having a low opinion of his work there.

Valley Race Park shut down in the fall of 1995 but reopened five years later, in the spring of 2000.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

For example, in areas such as the Lincolnshire Wolds, the villages are often found along the spring line halfway down the hillsides, and originate as spring line settlements, with the original open field systems around the village.

In the spring of 1831, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods by flatboat from New Salem to New Orleans via the Sangamon, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers.

The water equivalent of snowfall is measured to monitor how much liquid is available to flood rivers from meltwater which will occur during the following spring.

Tajikistan's rivers reach high-water levels twice a year: in the spring, fed by the rainy season and melting mountain snow, and in the summer, fed by melting glaciers.

When mating in the spring, they are more often found in shallow rivers, creeks, and streams.

In spring and summer, the upper layer is warmed up by the sun and diluted by the fresh water from rivers, while the deeper water remains cold and saline.

He saw that after snow-melt and spring rains, the rivers of the West flooded, releasing huge amounts of water, and that for the rest of the year not enough rain fell to support any kind of real agriculture.

On the Central Plateau, numerous rivers — most of which have dry beds for the greater part of the year — form from snow melting in the mountains during the spring and flow through permanent channels, draining eventually into salt lakes that also tend to dry up during the summer months.

The numerous rivers greatly increase their flow as a result of the winter rains and the spring melting of the Andean snows, and they contract considerably in the summer.

Wetlands close to the headwaters of streams and rivers can slow down rainwater runoff and spring snowmelt so that it doesn ’ t run straight off the land into water courses.

With the flooding of the rivers every spring, the Boosters club was finding it hard to attract people and business to the " muddy " little town.

The River Bladnoch can be fished for Atlantic salmon and has historically been well known as one of Scotland's finest rivers producing spring fish.

Restoration can be done on large scales, say, by allowing rivers to naturally flood in the spring.

The rivers of Helmand, Harirud, Kabul, Morghab, and Panjab flow from the Hazarajat and During the summer and spring, the area accounts for some of country's greenest pastures.

Typically, they left Montreal in the spring, as soon as the rivers and lakes were clear of ice ( usually May ) with their canoes loaded with supplies and goods for trading.

Many rivers spring from this area -- the most important being the Chicamocha River and Arauca River and tributaries to other important rivers such as the Magdalena and Meta.

In the spring, they move into rivers to spawn over gravel or vegetation ; the eggs may be found sticking to stones or weeds in shallow water.

The rendezvous system was later implemented by William Henry Ashley of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, whose company representatives would haul supplies to specific mountain locations in the spring, engage in trading with trappers, and bring pelts back to communities on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the fall.

Adult paddlefish migrations in relation to spring river conditions of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, Montana and North Dakota, USA.

Is a pleasant spa that is supplied water of fresh spring and is transparent forming a dam that is divided by small rivers.

The rivers and the characteristics of the basin cause a deep fog during spring

Once the rivers reached the relatively flat valley, the water slowed, the rivers widened, and the sediment was deposited in the floodplains and river beds causing them to rise, shift to new channels, and overflow their banks, causing major flooding, especially during the spring melt.