11.   Brown trout incubate in the gravel of stream beds and hatch in the spring.

12.   Carrying machetes, we headed off, single file, up a stream bed framed by steep slopes of thick vegetation.

13.   Courses travel over soggy meadows, stream beds and dirt trails.

14.   Disregard the shopping carts abandoned, half submerged, in the stream beds, and the cottonwoods, willows and reeds growing in the muddy concrete channels.

15.   Don Sebastian Martinez y Perez is here, the light stripes of his silk jacket like water rippling over a dark stream bed.

16.   From the bone-dry stream beds and parched trails of the Shawangunk Mountains, something is staring back.

17.   He led us along a dry stream bed to a telescope trained on a pair of spectacled owls.

18.   He deciphers hidden Braille letters in the bumpy pods of wheat and in the pebbly surface of a stream bed.

19.   It also said that some of the money from the timber sale would be used to replant trees and fix stream beds.

20.   It thrives in open, sunny spaces along moist, well-drained stream beds and river banks, undeterred by weeds or insects.