Large dead trees provide nesting sites for birds that typically nest in the same place year after year. Sandy areas around rivers provide nesting sites for turtles and water snakes. Riverfront areas provide food for species such as the wood turtle, which feed and nest in the uplands, but which use rivers as resting and overwintering areas. Loss of this connective function from activities that create barriers to wildlife movement results in fragmentation and causes declines in wildlife population. Wildlife must be able to move across riverfront areas, between uplands and rivers.
Perennial streams are Rivers under the law.
Ames Pond flows and there are many perennial streams. They have seen the existence of the wide variety of wildlife, including heron, deer, turtles, other birds, and mammals, that has been spotted here, breeds here and which winters over here. The ConCom public hearing was closed on October 7, 1998. The Order of Conditions must issue 21 days after the close of the public hearing. It can grant approval, it can impose restrictions on the project, or it can deny the project.