Sentence examples for thriving river from inspiring English sources

But the brochure also includes drawings of thriving river plants, like wild rice, and describes the Meadows, an important conservation area that is home to many birds and a nursery for anadromous fish.

The town used to be the focus of thriving river business and was an important stop on the Dublin to Limerick navigation.

Once home to 15,000 people, Cairo was a cultural hub, home to a thriving river trade.

Vidin, which in bygone Ottoman days was a thriving river port, shipping agricultural produce along the Danube, has suffered the worst depopulation in Bulgaria, losing 16 percent of its residents in 2012 alone.

The 2.2-square-mile village in Rockland County, once a thriving river town and the self-proclaimed brick-making capital of the world, went into a steep decline after the emergence of skyscrapers killed the demand for brick.

Prior to the American Civil War, the community thrived on river commerce (cotton, sugarcane, and lumber).

Among the major casualties have been populations of migratory fish like the salmon and steelhead, prevented by dams from returning to their river spawning grounds, and resident varieties like the trout, no longer able to thrive in rivers like the Mokelumne and the Feather, because of dams and inadequate water flow.

Junipers grow on the north faces of hills and buttes, and cottonwood, elm, and ash trees thrive along rivers and streams.

"Hoboken: One Year After Sandy," an exhibit that recently opened at the Hoboken Historical Museum, aims to not only remember the storm, but to highlight the city's vulnerabilities and emphasize the need for long-term changes that Hoboken must make in order to continue thriving on the Hudson river waterfront.

Water voles are "thriving" on a Hampshire river six years after they were wiped out in the area.

Its diet and physical characteristics likely made it a natural for thriving along the braided rivers that crossed the Gobi millions of years ago.