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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | A strip of vegetation along the bank of a body of water which slows the rate of flow of runoff from adjoining uplands, causing sediment and other materials to fall out onto the land before the runoff enters and pollutes the body of water. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Former Kenco Marine has been purchased by the Muckleshhot Indian Tribe on behalf of the Eliot Bay/ Duwamish River Natural Resource Trustees. The habitat value of the property will be enhanced by removing the structure on the site and pulling back the shoreline to create mudflat, salt marsh, and a riparian buffer habitat for fish and wildlife. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Gentle draft horses were used to transport wood to the sensitive regions of the upper river where heavy machinery would have been inappropriate. The horses were less expensive and worked in conjunction with the spyder to minimize disturbance to the stream bed and riparian buffer areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Riparian buffer along Bear Creek, in Story County, Iowa. Bear Creek is a national demonstration area for conservation buffers. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | The water in this Peoria County, Illinois creek runs clear thanks the landowner who planted vegetation along the edges. These riparian buffer strips filter water runoff from the fields. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | A strip of native grass combines with rows of shrubs and trees to form a protective riparian buffer along Bear Creek in Story County, Iowa. Tom Isenhart, a professor at Iowa State University and member of the ISU AgroEcology Team that helped design the bu. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | A farmer, NRCS District Conservationist Kevin Kordick, and Trees Forever rep Cheri Grauer inspect a developing riparian buffer in Carroll County. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Dave York, NRCS District Conservationist in Carroll County, Iowa, uses a personal digital assistant to record status of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) planting. He and the landowner inspected the riparian buffer on the farm. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | The combination of trees, shrubs and grasses in this riparian buffer reduces sediment and other attached pollutants entering the stream. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A barbed wire fence separates a riparian buffer (right) from a grazed pasture (left) used by cattle. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | District Conservationist Carman Westerfield and cooperator view a livestock waterer that keeps cattle off of an adjacent riparian buffer. Lamar County, Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-f-f-i-i-n-p-r-r-r-u" | |
-5 letters: paraffine, pifferari. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 49 50 41 52 49 41 4E 42 55 46 46 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001001 01010000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000010 01010101 01000110 01000110 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R I P A R I A N   B U F F E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0049 0050 0041 0052 0049 0041 004E 0042 0055 0046 0046 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52435035524335482365540403952 |
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