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Washington Channel’s trees and shrubs: a tale of two monocultures
This semester, I’m taking a Natural Resources class through Virginia Tech about understanding local watersheds, wherein I’ll be researching and posting knowledge about the Washington Channel. You can...
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Mud becomes concrete: Washington Channel’s history, told through maps
This semester, I’m taking a Natural Resources class through Virginia Tech about understanding local watersheds, wherein I’ll be researching and posting knowledge about the Washington Channel. You can...
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Going with the flow: how Washington Channel’s mechanics impact its relative...
This semester, I’m taking a Natural Resources class through Virginia Tech about understanding local watersheds, wherein I’ll be researching and posting knowledge about the Washington Channel. You can...
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The rain falls upon this plain, but then what?
As I mentioned in previous posts, the Washington Channel is quite unique in that the water contained within it has little to do with its drainage basin: instead, its water is essentially imported from...
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Fresh policies will freshen the flow into the Washington Channel
Yesterday, I wrote about the numerous storm drains that currently dump polluted water directly into Washington Channel. The District of Columbia recently adopted some of the nation’s most stringent and...
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Washington Channel: more a conduit than a stream
While Washington Channel is known for its fishing, it’s not because it’s a particularly inviting habitat for fish species. Instead, its unique flow pattern of imported water make it a “trap” for fish...
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The Silk Road’s detour to the Washington Channel
The first post in the watershed series mentioned that Morus alba (white mulberry) is a common invasive understory tree found at the edges of lawns along the Washington Channel, particularly along the...
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Friday photo: Cranes at the Wharf, from spring into summer
10 July 2015. 15 March 2015. I’ve been trying out a faux-time-lapse-photo series of the ongoing construction of the Wharf, the mega-project just a few blocks down the street. The photos are taken from...
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