Landslide Types and Processes L andslides in the United States occur in all 50 States. The primary regions of landslide occurrence and potential are...

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://landslides.usgs.gov/).  Open the following website using this link (http://landslides.usgs.gov/recent/) to find an inventory of media landslide event reports organized by year (back to 1994) and month.

://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs07603/) to access an article titled “Effects of Urban Development on Floods”.  Read through this overview of urban development and its effects.  Throughout the article, mention is made of four specific rivers of study: Mercer Creek, Newaukum Creek, Salt Creek, and the Anacostia River.  For each of these cases, discuss the data results and lessons learned.  What factors explained these results?