In recent years, the lower watershed has become much more urbanized, and the headwaters region is mainly used for recreation, summer hiking and camping, and winter skiing at the Mount Baldy Ski Lifts area.
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Due to the steep terrain of the headwaters region and the high rainfall of the upper Macal Basin, the Macal River is subject to rapid stage height rise, contributing significantly to the downstream flooding of the Belize River.
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Maxxam said it's negotiated a better agreement with the government under which it would swap its 5, 600 acres in Northern California's Headwaters region, whose redwoods environmentalists are trying to protect, for about 7, 800 acres of timberlands elsewhere and as much as $ 300 million in cash and other property.
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Building on Hurrell's work showing that precipitation in Istanbul, near the headwaters of the life-giving Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, has varied in phase with the North Atlantic oscillation, Ms . Cullen analyzed Turkish precipitation records in detail and concluded that when the North Atlantic was cold, the headwaters region was cooler and drier and water flows dropped in the streams that supplied Mesopotamia's water.
