Roanoke Sound Estuary
by: Briana Williams
The location of your estuary??
North Carolina in Northern Back- Barrier
The importance of Estuaries??
Estuaries provide us with a suite of resources, benefits, and services. Some of these can be measured in dollars and cents, others cannot. Estuaries provide places for recreational activities, scientific study, and aesthetic enjoyment. Estuaries are an irreplaceable natural resource that must be managed carefully for the mutual benefit of all who enjoy and depend on them.
Animals That Are Founded in Roanoke Sound Estuaries
- Turkey Territory
- Black Bears
- Swamp Canary
- Great Blue Heron
- Hickey Shad
rivers that feed into Roanoke Sound Estuaries??
- Tar-Pamlico
- Neuse
- and Pasquotank
- White Oak
What Are Threats to Estuaries
Picture that show how it goes??
Estuaries are one of the coastal areas most at risk in our region from human activities. Developments in and around estuaries and increasing population growth affect these special places.
What are The Waikato region’s estuaries are coming under increasing pressure from
- Estuary margin development - population growth and coastal settlement.
- Increased demands for recreational uses - such as boating and fishing.
- Development in estuaries - such as marine farms and marinas.
- Catchment development - such as forestry and agriculture.
- Land clearance and reclamation.L
Land that uses Practies??
- larity of the water (turbidity)c
- nature of sediments (for example, changes from sandy to muddy)
- rate of sedimentation.