Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

During the summer they require plenty of water and are very effective on the margins of lakes or by running streams, where they thrive.

The most striking feature is the existence of two great lines of depression, due largely to the subsidence of whole segments of the Earth's crust, the lowest parts of which are occupied by vast lakes.

They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well.

They are used in remote areas where use of septic tanks is limited, usually to reduce nutrient loads in lakes.

The outskirts of Berlin are covered with woodlands and numerous lakes

During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.

Among the branchiopods, only some cladocerans are marine ; all the other groups are found in continental waters fresh water, including temporary pools and salt lakes.

Notostracans are the largest branchiopodans and are omnivores living on the bottom of temporary pools and shallow lakes.

The country also contains numerous lakes – the principal ones are Tingrela, Bam and Dem.

Zebra mussels as well as the other invasive species found in the great lakes are present.

The only other lakes of importance in Chad are Lake Fitri, in Batha Prefecture, and Lake Iro, in the marshy southeast.

The manifestations of the element of water are rivers, oceans, lakes, wells, rain, fog, ice, snow, streams and all drinks.

There are only two freshwater lakes: Lake Kournas and Lake Agia, which are both in Chania regional unit.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

The wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further augmented by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes that are set aside as natural areas which lie along the city's periphery, home to both the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe and the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield.

Others lakes are Rincón ( fresh water, area of 28. 2 km² ), Oviedo ( brackish water, area of 28 km² ), Redonda, Limón.

In the north, near the coast, the Nile delta embraces a series of salt marshes and lakes, the most notable among which are Idku, Al Burullus, and Manzilah.

Numerous lakes of volcanic origin are found in the interior highlands ; many of these lakes are surrounded by mountains and have high, steep banks.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

The Great Lakes, sometimes disambiguated as the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway.

Crocodiles tend to congregate in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and sometimes in brackish water.

Pahoehoe is a highly fluid, hot form of basalt which tends to form thin aprons of molten lava which fill up hollows and sometimes forms lava lakes.

* Habitat: Steady-flowing upper to middle reaches of rivers and sometimes found in still waters such as lakes.

The extensive region lying south of the main ridge is occupied by mountain ranges whose summits sometimes rival in height those of the dividing ridge, and which are cut through by deep valleys, three of which converge in the basins of Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, the deepest of all the lakes on the south side of the Alps.

The city is sometimes described as The City of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota (" Fourth Lake "), Lake Monona (" Third Lake "), Lake Waubesa (" Second Lake ") and Lake Kegonsa (" First Lake "), although Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but just south of it.

It lives in ponds, lakes, canals, marshes, forests, pasture or agricultural land, sometimes in acid pools on upland moorland or coastal areas.

They are only about a quarter of a mile apart from each other, sometimes when it rains a lot the two lakes connect.

Sweet Home is sometimes referred to as the " Gateway to the Santiam Playground " due to its proximity to nearby lakes, rivers and the Cascade Mountains.

The Osprey breeds by freshwater lakes, and sometimes on coastal brackish waters.

Quaking bog or schwingmoor is a form of bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs, and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes.

The opposite effect to Isostatic subsidence is known as isostatic rebound-the action of the crust returning ( sometimes over periods of thousands of years ) to a state of isostacy, such as after the melting of large Ice sheets or the drying-up of large lakes after the last ice age.

The American subspecies is less tied to a high aquatic plant density, and sometimes breeds on quite open lakes.

Its nest is usually located in an elevated area near water such as streams, lakes, ponds and sometimes on a beaver lodge.

The young fry live at sea for two to three weeks and then migrate to mangrove swamps, estuaries, and sometimes lakes and return to sea to mature sexually and reproduce.

There do exist small individual scale geothermal operations, however, which harness reservoirs very close to the Earth ’ s surface, avoiding the need for extensive drilling and sometimes even taking advantage of lakes or ponds where there is already a depression.

During the winter months, they are found in coastal bays, estuaries, and sometimes inland lakes, such as the lakes of Central Europe and the Great Lakes.

This climate may be a kind of more severe Cold Oceanic Climate, with a low summer average but mild winters, sometimes above, especially near lakes, or a more severe Cold Continental Climate, with a very low winter average.

The name of the Zhongnanhai complex, located west of the Forbidden City, means " central and southern seas / lakes ", referring to two lakes ( the " Central Sea " and " Southern Sea ") located within the compound ; it is sometimes translated as " Sea Palaces ".

For example the colour green sometimes symbolises prairies or forests, blue can symbolise lakes and rivers, and the colour yellow is sometimes used to symbolise various crops.

The northern beaches frequented by snorkeling enthusiasts and sun worshipers alike are referred to as lakes by the locals.

Although rivers and canals often provide passage between two large lakes or a lake and a sea, and these seem to suit the formal definition of straits, they are not usually referred to as such.

Because of its large number of lakes, the northwestern corner of Waukesha County is referred to as " Lake Country " by local residents.

It is commonly referred to as the Twin Lakes Area because it is bordered by two of Arkansas ' largest lakes, Bull Shoals Lake and Norfork Lake.

The town's geography is dominated by its namesake lakes, which are referred to as " ponds " in general usage.

Some, now exhausted, former open-pit mines are now being converted into artificial lakes, with much hope to attract vacationers, and the area is now being referred to as Lausitzer Seenland (' Lusatian Lakeland ').

The name comes from Giezzen, as it was first referred to in 1197, which refers to the position of the town between several rivers, lakes and streams.

It is referred to as ' an oasis in the desert ' as its heights are home to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and evergreen forests.

Pluvial lakes that have since evaporated and dried out may also be referred to as paleolakes.

The entire area including connected lakes and the Fox are often referred to as Tichigan Lake.

Cuckmere Haven in Sussex, England contains a widely meandering river with many oxbow lakes, often referred to in physical geography textbooks.

Except when individually named, loughs are often referred to as lakes, fjords, estuaries, and sea inlets.

Upper and Lower Lough Erne are two consecutive lakes in Fermanagh, an area often referred to as Ireland's lake district.

They are also referred to as the Central African lakes.

" Many researchers believe that the waters referred to were either stagnant waters of Green Bay or the aromatic, algae-filled waters of the rivers or lakes where the Winnebago were living in the mid-17th century.

Nicholas Perrot was an early 20th-century historian who believed that the Algonquian terms referred to salt-water seas, as these have a distinctive aroma compared with fresh-water lakes.

The name mutated through several spellings and may have referred to the abundance of underground water sources or the city's location on the way to western Turkey's lakes region nearby.

Often referred to as ' Cottage Country ', this area's lakes and rivers are dotted with numerous cottages, some of them seasonal, but in recent years there is a growing trend for some of these ' summer cottages ' to be used as year-round residences due to a number of factors, abundance of outdoor recreation, baby-boom retiree population, increased local services and improved wireless communication.

The two crater lakes ( Portuguese: Lagoas das Sete Cidades ), 500 m ( 1, 500 ft ) within the crater, are referred to by the color of the waters: blue, reflecting the sky ( Portuguese: Lagoa Azul ) and green, reflecting the ground ( Portuguese: Lagoa Verde ).

In 1875, engineers of the Canada Company engaged in a large scale drainage project, referred to locally as " The Cut ", which altered the course of the river dramatically and permitted the draining of several local small lakes and wetlands for agricultural purposes.

Taylor refutes this, drawing attention to the fact that at the time of writing, Pizzorusso had plainly not seen the glacial lakes to which she referred, and had mistaken clumps of moss for sandstone boulders.

Springtime is generally referred to as " break up " in the area and further north, referring to the breaking up of the ice on rivers and lakes.

Monoporeia affinis, formerly referred to as Pontoporeia affinis (, = Pontus / Black Sea ;, = to travel ), is a small, yellowish benthic amphipod living in the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Sea and the lakes of the Nordic Countries.