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Abstract
Critical U.S.-Mexico Borderland Watershed AnalysisTrack: Environment Management
Author(s): Laura Margaret Brady, Floyd Gray, Mario Castaneda
The United States-Mexico border area faces the challenge of integrating aspects of its binational physical boundaries to form a unified or, at least, compatible natural resource management plan. Specified geospatial components such as stream drainage, mineral occurrences, vegetation, wildlife corridors, and land use can be analyzed in terms of their overlapping impacts upon one another. Selected catchment basins within the international transborder region have been identified and described within a GIS utilizing predefined U.S.-EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) boundaries. These watersheds can facilitate the delineation of both large-scale and locally important hydrologic systems and urban management parameters necessary for sustainable, diversified land use.
Laura Margaret Brady
U.S. Geological Survey
Southwest Field Office
520 N. Park Ave., Suite #355
Tucson, AZ 85719-5035
USA
Phone: (520)670-5510
Fax: (520)670-5571
E-mail: lmbrady@swfo.arizona.edu