I'm with Suzanne - I automatically wondered why the Forest Health Office needed a cut-off time for 'family-friendly' content. That's be those 12 years in the UK still haunting me!
I read your question and I'm going to reply right away before reading answers. I have no idea, really, what a watershed is. A body of water? a building site that houses equipment that purifies the water? the equipment that turns water into electricity? an underground channel that takes water from the lakes/rivers and distributes it to the water lines. I'm clueless and embarrased by my lack of knowledge. Now I'll go read and google.
okay - I read the other answers and don't feel quite as bad about my wrong answers. Personally, I like the UK responses and the answer about shedding water weight at the beginning of most weight loss programs.
i dunno! Seriously...I'm sure I did know at one time or another...before children messed with my mind.
I am sticking with almsthere's answer. School was too long ago for me. We didn't have earth science in grade school and I didn't study that in college.
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The only reason I have any clue, although possibly incorrect, is because I read a newspaper story here a few years ago about the local university ag department using the roof of the riverboat for watershed studies. They had planted a bunch of trees and plants on the roof of the riverboat and were studying how much rainfall was absorbed, how much ran off, etc. So I guess it has something to do with how trees and plants affect how the ground absorbs water?
Watershed is the area of land that shed water into a holding area such as a river or lake. A mountain can act as a watershed. Rain or snow falls on the mountain then drains to a lower lying stream or lake.
While the I have never heard the term health used in the context of watershed I can see the importance of keeping our watershed lands clean and safe as watershed land give much of the country its drinking water.
Good luck with this task. T
