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Across
  1. 3. to build up of combustibles...future fires are more intense and harder to control
  2. 4. national goal concerning wetland conservation management
  3. 5. with less than 35 inches of annual precipitation
  4. 10. fire
  5. 12. trees
  6. 13. found a taiga
  7. 15. in a boreal forest
  8. 16. ducks that already have leg bands
  9. 18. of fresh water trapped in glaciers or aquifers
  10. 20. gain access to nutrient rich waters...the whale is unaffected
  11. 21. American Model of Wildlife Conservation
  12. 25. of suppressing fire to protect infrastructure
  13. 28. near lakes and streams...particularly where there is seasonal flooding
  14. 29. to stop water from naturally changing course and prevent floods
  15. 30. area has seasonal flooding...anaerobic soil....dead vegetation in the water...filled with trees
  16. 31. has been reduced by 30 to 50 percent.
Down
  1. 1. species
  2. 2. grassland conditions
  3. 6. and recapture
  4. 7. of an ecosystem covered by trees to be a forest
  5. 8. dimorphism
  6. 9. born incompletely developed then carried in a pouch
  7. 11. physical appearance between a male and female of same species
  8. 14. rights of citizens to access wildlife for hunting through hunting seasons
  9. 17. of individuals per unit area
  10. 19. swamp
  11. 22. Burn
  12. 23. a farmer moves cattle from pasture to pasture
  13. 24. abiotic nitrogen fixation mechanism
  14. 26. grazing
  15. 27. density