Sentence examples for create dams from inspiring English sources

Beavers create dams because the resulting swamps allow them to enter their lodges through safe underwater entrances, Mr. Batcheller said.

It is industrious but shy, and spends most of its time eating through trees in order to create dams.

Beavers in turn go on to create dams that help keep rivers clean and lessen the effects of drought.

Because dynamite could create dams to supply electricity, because dynamite could gouge out aquaeducts to carry drinking & irrigation water & because the roads themselves could bear the traffic that brought supplies, there was a demographic expansion.

Large landslides in Quaternary sediments are commonplace in the Peace River regions of Alberta and British Columbia (Geertsema et al. 2006; Miller and Cruden 2008), and many of the landslides create dams which disrupt streamflow, damage timber, and threaten infrastructure both downstream and upstream.

Many independent minded sustainability experts are critical of hydro-based energy because it results in destroying rivers to create dams; wind power has that annoying problem of chopping up birds; the sun is great, when it shines, which happens in the desert, but not so great in most of the world where the energy-sucking population centers exist; the list of precautionary trade-offs is endless.

Stockponds have been created over the last 100 years by developing springs or blocking small waterways, creating dams that hold water into the dry season (Figure 2). Figure 2 A stockpond in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We saw how breaking branches that tumble into the streams are left to create debris dams.

They point out that people were displaced and fertile land flooded to create the dams.

You don't need to cloak the landscape, just to forest about 20% of the hills to slow run off and create natural dams in mountain streams.

But the goal of good social legislation is not to create impermeable dams that will stop every possible bad behavior; it is to put obstacles in their way.