Agricultural Development: Helping crop producers with agriculture, controlling pests, etc.

http://www.economywatch.com/agriculture/development.html

Anthropogenic: Something caused by humans

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/anthropogenic?s=t

Bank Stabilization: A structure that is full of vegetation and helps the stream with erosion.

https://www.springfieldmo.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3455

Banding: An object that will border or outline a piece, small strips of wood or grain together or a wooden surface.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/banding?s=t

Breeding Programs: There are many different types but the bottom line is that they try to help an endangered or threatened species by helping rise the population.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/breeding+programs

Bequest Value: Estimating the value of a service of something or how good a thing will be.

https://glosbe.com/en/en/bequest%20value

Biotic Potential: The amount of how much the population of an organisms can increase or decrease.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/biotic-potential?s=ts

Biodiversity: Diversity within an ecosystem or habitat.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/biodiversity?s=t

Channelization: To channel/control something

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/channelize?s=t

Clean Water Act: A act created in 1972 that helps regulate the amount of pollution discharges in US waters.

https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act

Clutch: The amount of eggs are hatched.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/clutch?s=t

Cowbirds: An American orioles that are brown colored and annoy the Southwestern willow flycatchers.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cowbird?s=ts

Dams: An object or barrier that help stops or slows down the flow of water.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dam?s=ts

Demographic Borders: The structure of the population and where it will go to how far.

Ecological Value: Everything in the ecosystem that help support it. From water, food supply, minerals and other factors that keep the ecosystem going.

https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/25131

Ecosystem:  A system that contains multiple habitats within itself.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ecosystem?s=t

Endangered Species: A species in the red zone that is at risk of becoming extinct due to climate change, human activity etc.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/endangered-species?s=ts

Endangered Species Act: A act created in 1973 that protects all endangered and threatened species

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa/

Environmental Factors: Any factor, biotico or abiotic, that affects the organisms in that environment.

https://thelawdictionary.org/environmental-factors/

Extinct: Species is no longer living on the planet (has died).

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/extinct?s=t

Food webs: The interaction of predator and prey in an ecosystem and what happens to maintain the ecosystem alive and healthy.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/food-web?s=t

Habitat Destruction: The rate or process in which a habitat slowly gets lost and destroyed. Animals and plants habitat are destroyed.

http://biodiversitya-z.org/content/habitat-destruction

Habitat: The home and environment that houses living things, such as organisms.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/habitat?s=ts

Incremental: The rising amount of something, adding and increases in size.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/incremental?s=t

Keystone Species: Has an odd effect in an ecosystem. Disrupts the species within the ecosystem. Dominant predator in a certain ecosystem.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/keystone-species?s=t

Livestock Grazing: Livestock that eats grass and other plants that then help the animals produce milk or meat.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/grazing

Meta population:  The same species in an ecosystem but separated by space. The same species but don’t or may not have a lot of interaction with one another.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/metapopulation-definition-theory-examples.html

Migratory Bird Treaty Act: A act created in 1918 that protects birds all over the United States when they migrate.

https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html

Migration Patterns: Where an animals will go to throughout the year as well as the different seasons.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/animal-migration-13259533

Regulation: Laws and rules that are set in place to help control and regulate substances or objects.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/regulation?s=ts

Reservoirs: A chamber or pool that holds water that then distributes the the people or helps what is needed to be done.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/reservoirs?s=t

Resources: The amount of supply and quantity of something an organism or ecosystem may have.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/resources?s=t

Riparian Corridor: The difference and space from a patch of land to a stream or river. Habitats that are around or on the edge of rivers and streams.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3834599.pdf

Riparian Habitat: Ecosystems that are dependant on streams and rivers or use water.

http://articles.extension.org/pages/62490/what-is-a-riparian-area

Species: A group of individuals that share the same traits and genes as one another. Breed within themselves but not with other species.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/species?s=t

Sustainable Habitat: An ecosystem that provides shelter and protection as well as food for the different species in that ecosystem.

http://imprint-india.org/domains/sustainable-habitat

Tamarisk: A shrub or small tree that is a weed.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tamarisk?s=ts

Threatened Species: A species that is likely to become extinct if not soon then at some point in the coming years.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/threatened-species

Tipping Point: The moment or time where one thing can happen. Good or bad that affects its surroundings.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tipping-point?s=t

Urban Development: Improvement or re-building of an urban area by putting more buildings in that area.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/urban-development

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: An agency in the the US Department to help protect and manage fish, habitats and animals.

https://www.fws.gov