A first step in watershed exploration (like most any academic or professional pursuit) is to define what you are exploring and explaining. A simple definition:
A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes to the same place. |
John Wesley Powell, scientist geographer, described a watershed as:
"that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community."
Watersheds, sub-watersheds, and micro-watersheds:
Larger watersheds such as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed can encompass many hundreds of
