Land & Water Management - Glossary

4. The process of managing the use and development (in both urban and suburban settings) of land resources in a sustainable way.
5. The removing trees, stumps, and other vegetation from wooded areas.
9. The coordinated and sustainable use and management of land, water, vegetation and other natural resources, on a water catchment basis, to balance resource use and conservation.
10. The process in which the value of the biophysical environment is damaged by either human or natural means.
11. Transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
12. Conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.

1. The grazing of pastures so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes liable to erosion.
2. The land degradation caused by increasing salt in soils and increasing salt concentrations in watercourses.
3. The planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources.
6. Process of weathering and transport of solids (sediment, soil, rock and other particles)by water.
7. Foreign species that have either arrived accidentally or have been introduced intentionally to a particular environment.
8. The condition of water in relation to its physical, chemical and biological characteristics.
11. Upper surface of groundwater below which soil is saturated with water that fills all voids and interstices, and where the pressure of water in the soil equals the atmospheric pressure.