First order stream glossary and government resources

First order stream : stream originating in a seepage zone or spring, with noentering tributaries; the most headward channels in the drainage network.

[Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]

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...in determining stream order is deciding what constitutes a first-order stream.

State Water Resources Research Institute Program
A first-order stream near Waseca, MN, and four orders of. streams in the Sand

Principles of Watershed Management
For example, when a stream first begins, its is called a first order stream.

Environmental Protection Agency
In what zone would you probably find a first-order stream? What about a second-,

GEOLOGY
For instance, a first order stream would be a stream in which no other streams

Glossary
First Order Stream: The smallest size class of streams (ie a “headwater stream�)..

Modeling
This procedure consists in the progressive removal from the drainage network

Coos Bay Record of Decision: Glossary
Each small unbranched tributary is a first order stream. Two first order

Influence of a riparian wetland on nitrate and herbicides exported ...
The study site is a fairly typical (for eastern Maryland) small, first-order

Key to site summary
A hierarchical classification defined by Strahler (1952, 1964); Headwater

OPE3 - Poster01
...riparian wetland into which each watershed drains. The riparian wetland contains


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