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m B NRCS Watersheds A Be Major NRCS NRCS Subwatersheds A ar (shaded areas with N (white outlines) N B Sub-basins r green outlines) T o K o I k Bu C A watershed includes all the land area that drains to a particular lake, stream, river, estuary, or the tterm ilk ocean. Numerous watersheds that flow to a smaller lake or stream or directly to the ocean are Br ook Mill Pickerel "nested" within these relatively large watersheds. Within these watersheds are still smaller Pond watersheds. Fir Brook st B utt Pond ermi In the NRCS (National Resources Conservation Service) system, the generic term for a watershed or lk (Burd en) Pond drainage area is "hydrologic unit." The formal terms sub-basin, watershed, and subwatershed refer to specific sizes of hydrologic units in the NRCS system: Picke M rel

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Inset Scale - 1:500,000 Miles B ra n c h Data Sources Bucks Cove HYDROLOGY Maine Office of GIS (1:24,000) Bear Pond NATIONAL WETLANDS INVENTORY 150 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. For methods, see: Cowardin, L. M., Carter, V., Golet, F. C., and E. T. LaRoe. 1979. Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States. U.S. Dept. of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, L on Washington D. C., 131pp. g

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