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Basic human rights, including the right to the substance of being human such as life itself, liberty and happiness.

The surface beneath a wetland, lake, or stream in which organisms grow or to which organisms are attached.

The diameter of streambed particles such as clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobble and boulders.

A shallow drain installed in an irrigated field to intercept the rising ground-water level and maintain the water table at an acceptable depth below the land surface.

All water – solid, liquid or gaseous – that occurs beneath the Earth’s surface; located below the water table in the zone of saturation.

Continuously submerged; an area affected by ocean tides.

A semipermanent anticyclone located, on the average, over oceans near

The natural sequence of plant community replacement beginning with bare ground and resulting in a final, stable community in which a climax forest is reached. Foresters, wildlife biologists, and farmers constantly battle ecological succession to try to maintain a particular vegetative cover.

A wildlife-enhancement practice in which a disk harrow or rotary mower is used to knock down existing vegetation every 1 to 3 years to promote the regrowth of annuals, legumes, forbs, and perennials.

The concept of sufficiency is integral to more sustainable fashion futures as it recognizes the irreconcilability of the finite limits of the planet with the infinitely increasing rates of production, consumption, and waste of fashion products. Sufficiency thinking acknowledges that material objects, including fashion and clothing, are integral to human culture and that, up to […]