Ponds and Streams

The black lake was shimmering like ink —Richard Russo
Light spread across the river like an oil spill —Jay Parini
Pond … covered with rain like sequins or crinkled up with wind like a watered silk —Joyce Cary
River … like a sheet of polished metal —Boris Pasternak
The river in evening like a dirty window —Delmore Schwartz
The river looked like an eye which for some reason or other was growing darker and darker as happens in love at the onset of ecstacy —Bertold Brecht
The river now all crinkled like tinfoil —Delmore Schwartz
The river raged by like a forest fire —Edward Hoagland
A river ran there as clear as the air itself, and the fish in it were like gold and silver —Hans Christian Anderson
The river … smelled like a packing house for fish, but it looked like the melted, dark eyes of a million girls —Hortense Calisher
The river was brown and bubbly … like cake icing —Lee Smith
The stream was like a silver magnet that pulled them across the prairie —Dorothy Francis

References in periodicals archive

MORE than PS1.3m has been awarded to a scheme that will train thousands of "citizen scientists" to monitor and protect wildlife-rich ponds and streams.

Citizen scientists to aid UK wildlife

The Onondaga County would be allowed to keep twenty percent of the annual revenue from the sale of fishing licenses sold to residents within the county limits and would allow offset and be in lieu of any expenses incurred by the States DEC should the hatchery close and State DEC then have to take over the stocking of the ponds and streams currently stocked by the hatchery.

Fishing licenses sold in Onondaga County

In ponds and streams, many biotic and abiotic factors (e.g., dissolved oxygen, food availability) may contribute to these life history differences.

Intraspecific variation in life history traits among two forms of Ambystoma barbouri larvae

It was an odd designation, given that the property is in a prime development area and ponds and streams are not what one would classify as blighted.

Giving away the store to get a store: tax increment financing is no bargain for taxpayers

Crews can now use it to control pests that frequent wet areas or the shores and banks of ponds and streams such as purple loosestrife, Japanese knotweed, Brazilian pepper, and Chinese tallow.

Herbicide receives aquatic label. (Equipment & Services)

Caltha palustris (Marsh marigold) This British native is happiest with its feet in water, growing alongside ponds and streams, forming a loose mound of leaves and large, waxy buttercups in late spring at the edge of water.

Gardening: Plant of the Week

Fish abundance was higher in upland ponds than in lowland ponds, collapsed ponds, or streams, whereas species richness was highest in collapsed ponds and streams. Cluster analyses based on fish abundance at sites classified according to succession al environment indicated that four species (northern redbelly dace, Phoxinus eos; brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans; finescale dace, P.

SPATIAL VARIATION IN FISH ASSEMBLAGES ACROSS A BEAVER-INFLUENCED SUCCESSIONAL LANDSCAPE

About 25 lakes, ponds and streams are currently being fished in Rotman's nine-county territory.

As urban fishing catches on, people care more about pollution

"This allows tiny species to avoid predation in ponds and streams as larvae," he says.

Smallest frog leaps into limelight

The Freshwater Habitats Trust said the new method makes it much easier and quicker to find the newts in ponds and streams and brings potential benefits for developers who often have to provide planners with an accurate assessment of great crested newt populations on proposed development sites.

DNA test hope to save rare newts

Beaver ponds and streams were sampled at the Savannah River Site (SRS) on the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina (USA).

Influence of beavers on stream fish assemblages: effects of pond age and watershed position

I focused on the influence of spatial proximity of beaver ponds on fish assemblages in adjacent stream environments because the boundary between beaver ponds and streams was, historically, a fundamental component of large-scale spatial heterogeneity in north temperate aquatic habitats (Naiman et al.

Dispersal, boundary processes, and trophic-level interactions in streams adjacent to beaver ponds