Headwaters — Headwaters is being bought by Australian construction firm Boral for $1.86 billion in cash, or $24.25 per share.
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Grand Lake serves as the headwaters for the Colorado River.
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"We remain confident that completion of the Headwaters acquisition, which has now received Headwaters Inc shareholder approval, will take place by around mid-2017," Boral Chief Executive Officer Mike Kane said in a statement.
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Headwaters' stock is up more than 39 percent year to date.
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Whatever is in our headwaters will ultimately end up in our backyards.
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We welcome the fish each summer as they build their nests at headwaters.
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When headwaters are polluted, cities downstream will pay to treat their drinking water.
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WATERS RISING The building products company Headwaters agreed to be bought by Boral Ltd.
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Viewers are guided to the other side of the Headwaters Park to face the Gallatin.
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Boral in November agreed to buy U.S. rival Headwaters Inc for $1.8 billion in cash.
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But exposing children to the game is just the headwaters in the money stream of development.
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It's hoped it will become the new "headwaters" for the last mile of Silver Bow Creek.
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Today, the Elwha River flows freely from its headwaters in the Olympic Mountains to the Strait.
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Meanwhile, building materials supplier Boral Ltd agreed to buy U.S. firm Headwaters Incorporated for around $2.6 billion.
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Rafters have yet to brave, for instance, the headwaters of the Heilongjiang or Songhuajiang Rivers in China.
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More than 4,000 communities across the country are prone to 100-plus acre wildfires, according to Headwaters.
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The plan was to sail an iron-plated steamboat, loaded with railroad ties, to the Urubamba's headwaters.
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Unlike watersheds in the Lower 48, Bristol Bay — its rivers, headwaters, and forests — are in relatively pristine condition.
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In May, a 33-square-mile algal bloom crept over Lake Okeechobee, the vast headwaters of the Everglades.
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It's written by 10 researchers with varied areas of expertise and was published in January by Headwaters Economics.
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The barred galaxius, an endangered fish found only in the headwaters of a few creeks northeast of Melbourne.
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"We stopped the flow of the river of grass from the Everglades headwaters down to Florida Bay," Jewell said.
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The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt arrived at the headwaters of the Amazon River in March of 1800.
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This is why we need a permanent ban on mining in the headwaters, as Congresswoman McCollum's legislation would provide.
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That in turn is weakening the headwaters of vital rivers flowing to the rest of the country, scientists say.
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The site is near Lake Iliamna in southwestern Alaska between the headwaters of two rivers that drain into Bristol Bay.
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Appalachian Headwaters is a nonprofit using an old summer camp site to train former coal miners in the honeybee business.
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The EPA estimates that 85033 percent of the headwaters of watersheds in the western United States are contaminated by mining.
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The commission bought up property along the river valley and created a landscaped autoroute leading to the headwaters in Westchester County.
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Here, then, is one possible charting of the "You hate to see it" course: Its headwaters were a sports commentary aphorism.
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The Obama rule was initially intended to clarify that small waterways like ponds and headwaters can be protected by the EPA.
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They killed two more grizzlies on July 85033 [1805] when the expedition was still near the headwaters of the Missouri River . . . .
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The 85033 rule extended federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act to small bodies of water like headwaters, wetlands and some ponds.
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Genesis locates it at the headwaters of four rivers; two have been lost (Pishon, Gihon), but two are still known (Tigris, Euphrates).
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Shares of Headwaters leaped 17 percent Monday after it agreed to be bought by Australian construction firm Boral for $1.86 billion in cash.
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That route crosses a number of Minnesota's prime wild rice lakes and streams as well as the Mississippi headwaters, the worst route imaginable.
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It's hoped that the water, once treated, could be a new "headwaters" for a section of the Silver Bow Creek that remains unrestored.
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The border cuts through Spednic, East Grand and North lakes before reaching the headwaters of the St. Croix River watershed at Monument Brook.
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It's worth the trek, though, if you're looking for the headwaters of the immigration flood now flowing from Africa to Europe via Libya.
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Idaho's rural population as a whole fell by more than 5 percent from 2000 to 2015, according to an analysis by Headwaters Economics.
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Days after its formation, the Walden Group purchased a 40-acre property along the Colorado River's headwaters in the mountains northwest of Denver.
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But officials at the headwaters in Danjiangkou say that less than half of the planned extraction was taken out of the reservoir in 2017.
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After thousands of miles of tunnels were dynamited and drilled, a giant open pit copper mine was dug near the headwaters of the creek.
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The Skeena River flows some 350 miles in a southwesterly direction from its headwaters in northwestern British Columbia to the Pacific near Prince Rupert.
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The water flowing off Baker forms the headwaters for the West Branch of the Pleasant River, an important spawning area for wild Maine brook trout.
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Yet at the headwaters of the Santa River, in the mountain city of Huaraz, César Portocarrero, a Peruvian climatologist, sees problems afoot for those downstream.
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With headwaters in British Columbia, it is the biggest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America, opening into the ocean near Astoria, Oregon.
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The Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act, H.R. 5598, would permanently ban this form of mining in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters.
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And another study by Headwaters Economics found that communities in the West have $85033,360 higher per capita income for every 100,000 acres of protected public lands.
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The Obama-era water rule would have redefined the federal government's authority over bodies of water and exerted authority over small waterways like ponds and headwaters.
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The agencies also determined that many wetlands adjacent to those rivers and streams, as well as wetlands next to their headwaters, deserved federal protection as well.
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What can it mean that a few mussels, some snails we've never heard of, obscure crayfish in marginal headwaters and some island-confined songbirds are vanishing?
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It would reverse the 2015 rule, which extended federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act to small bodies of water like headwaters, wetlands and some ponds.
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From the headwaters of the Missouri the expedition traveled up the Jefferson where they saw the last grizzly of the outward bound journey on July 31.
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What can it mean that a few mussels, some snails we've never heard of, obscure crayfish in marginal headwaters and some island-confined songbirds are vanishing?
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Since 1990 60% of new homes in California, Washington and Oregon have been built in spaces abutting nature, says Ray Rasker of Headwaters Economics, a research firm.
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A 2015 analysis by the firm Headwaters Economics concluded that changes to the federal coal mining program could increase annual revenues by $139 million to $512 million.
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FROM its headwaters more than three miles above sea level in Qinghai province, China, to its delta in Vietnam, the Mekong river runs more than 4,300 kilometres.
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The Jersey Shore star revealed on Tuesday that he sought help at HeadWaters holistic treatment center in West Palm Beach, Florida, to deal with alcohol abuse and depression.
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He was talking about renewed efforts to build a mine at the headwaters of one of the world's last wild salmon nurseries, at Bristol Bay in southwestern Alaska.
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Ever since China, where the headwaters of the Mekong are fed by glacial melt, began damming the river early this century, the river has been producing less fish.
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The three reservoirs — Cannonsville, Neversink and Pepacton — were created by dams built on the headwaters of the Delaware River tributaries and collect water from rain and melting snow.
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"I built my house to challenge the Chinese," said one, Daw Lu Ra, who was eating a freshly caught fish by candlelight at a restaurant overlooking the headwaters.
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Artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American researcher Shane Doyle orchestrated a far-reaching and complex eco-art event at the Missouri Headwaters State Park in Three Forks, Montana.
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The performance begins at the Headwaters as viewers are led high up the hill to the area called Fort Rock overlooking the Jefferson and the Madison as they merge.
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The 1964 treaty sets a protocol for managing how much water Canada will release annually from the river's headwaters and how much the United States will pay in return.
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Brick maker Boral Ltd led the losses sinking 12 percent, after it issued A$1.58 bln in new shares to pay for the buyout of U.S. rival Headwaters Inc.
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If I could cross Spednic that morning I would likely be able to reach the headwaters — and the end of the first leg of my trip — the following day.
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For these reasons, congressional action to permanently ban mining in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters is the best remaining option to avert disaster and protect the Boundary Waters.
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The original 2015 rule was designed to clarify federal agencies' authority and give them the power to regulate small waterways such as ponds, headwaters and wetlands for pollution prevention.
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"Right now we can't fit under the bridges," said Condren, 51, who operates 8200 Mountain Sports in South Fork, Rio Grande County, near the river's San Juan Mountains headwaters.
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But their presence in Yaguas suggests that the aquatic ecosystem is still healthy, which is important given that the park contains the headwaters of a tributary to the Amazon.
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It would also add Headwaters' windows and trim products to Boral's more modest light building products division, and increase the company's exposure to markets in the midwest and the northeast.
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Montana-based Headwaters Economics research firm said that since 2002, the average annual cost of wildfires to the federal government is $3 billion, up from $1 billion in the 1990s.
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"A lot of new homes are being constructed in places that are at risk to wildfire," said Kelly Pohl, a geographer at Headwaters Economics, a Montana-based independent research group.
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So in 2015, the EPA and Army Corps wrote the Clean Water Rule with the goal of clarifying that small waterways like headwaters, ponds, wetlands and intermittent streams are protected.
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Kelly Pohl, a researcher at Headwaters, says now's the time to pressure developers to halt this trend—or, at least, to start using smart land-use strategies to reduce risk.
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The means of that savaging is the proposed open-pit copper and gold Pebble Mine that would be dug at the headwaters of the sockeye salmon's largest remaining spawning ground.
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Chris Mehl, policy director with Headwaters Economics, a Montana research group that specializes in land use policies including fire prevention, said California would be forced into building more resilient communities.
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He began in Venezuela and then moved through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, going over the Andes and into the headwaters of the Amazon, following it east to the coast of Brazil.
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WUI makes up 9 percent of the contiguous U.S., from Colorado's Front Range to Southeast Texas to the Great Lakes states, and according to Headwaters, 84 percent of it remains undeveloped.
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EDP Renewables (EDPR) said the deal, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables North America, would see Facebook buy energy generated at the 200 MW Headwaters II Wind Farm in Randolph County, Indiana.
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As the land management group Headwaters Economics has shown in detailed maps, there is a vast amount of developable land that, without new policies, will greatly expand a disaster's bull's-eye.
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Through the Okavango Headwaters project, the hope is to clear landmines from two of the country's national parks, renewing and preserving a vital transnational ecosystem stretching across Namibia, Angola and Botswana.
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On August 23 and 1980, in the bucolic Missouri Headwaters State Park, at the point where the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers merge, MTA will stage 2018's final Waterworks performance.
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Doyle explains that the Headwaters was commonly known in sign language as the "Choke Cherry, Cherry, or Berry River" among the many different tribes who went there to meet and conduct trade.
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Mountain Time Arts presented Cherry River, Where the Rivers Mix on August 23 and 24 at the Missouri Headwaters State Park in Three Forks, Montana (1585 Trident Rd, Three Forks, MT 59752).
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Like: a Grand Canyon panorama, a birds-eye view of Manhattan, and a Buddhist world map featuring the imagined spiral of headwaters for the region's three great rivers high in the Himalayas.
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Half the jobs in Oregon, for example, are now clustered in just three counties in and around Portland, according to a study by Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit research group in Bozeman, Mont.
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Shares of Boral, which is in the building and construction materials business, closed down 13.31 percent, after the company announced the acquisition of U.S.-based Headwaters for an enterprise value of $2.6 billion.
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One of them, Myanmar, wants to cut the size of a port and economic zone in Rakhine state, as well as shelve for good a controversial dam on the headwaters of the Irrawaddy.
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That soil and rock mixture is supposed to be returned to the land after mining is complete, but often is placed as fill in nearby valleys, which can also block headwaters of streams.
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Giant pumps are sucking some 2350,22012 litres a second from a canal fed by the Narmada, lifting it by 2650 metres and carrying it nearly 20143 kilometres to pour into the Shipra's headwaters.
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According to a Headwaters analysis, wildfire protection and suppression annually costs the government approximately $3 billion, which is equal to half of President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the entire Environmental Protection Agency.
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But trace the mighty rivers that flow through India and Pakistan back to their mountain source and you will find the snow leopard, guarding the headwaters of some of the world's largest rivers.
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They found him at night harvesting an elusive and valuable catch: the nearly invisible tiny eels that wriggle into the headwaters of local bays along the Atlantic coast for several weeks each spring.
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The unfinished hydropower projects I'd seen in the Himalayas were the result of a Supreme Court decision, which he had strongly supported, to halt construction in the ecologically sensitive headwaters of the river.
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"It wasn't just the miners that lost their livelihoods when mining jobs disappeared; other industries started to wilt, too, and entire communities were affected," Cindy Bee, a beekeeper with Appalachian Headwaters, told NPR News.
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Northern Dynasty's site is near Lake Iliamna in southwestern Alaska between the headwaters of two rivers that drain into Bristol Bay, and is known for its huge salmon runs, wilderness and abundant brown bears.
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"The headwaters of Lake Sakakawea is a dead zone," said Christopher Guy, a biologist at Montana Cooperative Fishery Unit, who published a paper about the same thing happening around Fort Peck Dam last year.
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It would have passed through numerous areas that environmentalists and American Indians see as particularly sensitive, like the headwaters of the Mississippi River, lakes where Indians grow rice, and numerous other bodies of water.
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The Obama rule asserted federal power over ponds, headwaters, wetlands and other water bodies that feed into larger water areas, but whose Clean Water Act jurisdiction was unclear because of conflicting Supreme Court cases.
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But two Supreme Court decisions, in 2001 and 2006, created legal confusion about whether the federal government had the authority to regulate the smaller streams and headwaters, and other water sources such as wetlands.
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The nation's most-visited wilderness area, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, faces the certain threat of toxic pollution from proposed copper sulfide mining in the headwaters of this popular paradise.
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Yanglo, who like some Tibetans goes by one name, left his home on the shores of Gyaring and Ngoring, a pair of high-altitude lakes near the headwaters of the Yellow River, in 2003.
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The collective was recently formed after the Appalachian Headwaters was created in 2016 to invest funds received from a $85033 million settlement that resulted from a lawsuit brought against coal mine operator Alpha Natural Resources.
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Undeterred, Mount Polley's owner, Imperial Metals, was permitted six months later to open a new mine, Red Chris, in the headwaters of the Stikine River, one of Alaska's most iconic rivers and biggest salmon producers.
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Seven dams that China built on the Mekong headwaters in its territory are already a headache for Southeast Asian countries, reducing the amount of sediment floating downstream by as much as half, according to researchers.
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This mighty, anecdotal travelogue mirrors the majestic river itself, sometimes meandering like the Hudson's headwaters, diverted occasionally by jetsam (do we need to know, parenthetically, the year that so many players were born and died?).
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However, several court decisions and Congressional inaction have "muddied the waters" by thwarting our ability to protect what are known as "headwaters," or the beginnings of our streams and rivers, as well as many wetlands.
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It was glistening with hard-earned fat, a product of thousands of miles of migration and eating, from birth in the snow-fed headwaters of Alaskan rivers to a life lived in the sea beneath.
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Through the regulation, the EPA seeks to assert its authority under the Clean Water Act over small waterways like wetlands and headwaters, would could subject states and private landowners to new permitting requirements and restrictions.
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"There is a misperception out there that we are at the headwaters of the one and only river in all of Bristol Bay," Pebble partnership spokesman Mike Heatwole told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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Minutes later, Mr. Conant came to Camp Lightfoot, which a nonprofit organization, Appalachian Headwaters, is turning into an apiary with an eye toward helping displaced coal workers and military veterans get into the honey business.
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In Utah, these areas protect the headwaters of many of the rivers and streams that support downstream water users, including nearly two million Utah residents, according to another analysis of government data by the Wilderness Society.
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One cool day last fall, he proudly showed me around his land near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, a gently rolling forest of straight eastern white pines, quaking aspen and the occasional flaming red maple.
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"For some people it might be a side hustle, but for other people it could really turn into, over time, a true income that could sustain a family," said Kate Asquith, program director at Appalachian Headwaters.
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The mine, in the headwaters of Bristol Bay — home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world — could decimate the fishing industry that thrives there, as well as the subsistence fishing of Native Alaskan tribes.
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These operations generate billions of tons of toxic mine tailings stored behind massive dams, creating an ecological hazard at the headwaters of Alaska's major salmon rivers — the Stikine, Unuk and Taku, which straddle the border with Canada.
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The 2015 regulation, also known as Waters of the United States, asserts federal power over small waterways such as wetlands, headwaters and ponds, requiring Clean Water Act permits for any actions that could harm or pollute them.
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Last year's unusually warm spring produced melting waters that cut a canyon through the ice, diverting more water into the Alsek River, which flows to the south and on into Pacific, robbing the headwaters to the north.
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The Prospect Park Alliance, a nonprofit group that helps manage the park, just received a $390,000 grant from the state to pursue a pilot project that will filter out phosphate from the headwaters of the water course.
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Sixty percent of new homes built in the U.S. since 1990 have been constructed in areas that adjacent to fire-prone public lands, and this is forecasted to continue, according to an analysis by Montana-based Headwaters Economics.
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"I want to see a clean, restored and meandering Silver Bow Creek through town," said Fritz Daily, a former state legislator who once worked in the mines and is now head of the Silver Bow Creek Headwaters Coalition.
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He added the company was better placed to manage production in a downturn than rival Boral Ltd, which hit a record profit last year after buying U.S. cement ingredient maker Headwaters but downgraded half-year profit expectations on Monday.
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The package carried a handful of bills that include the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and put in place protections for the gateway to at Yellowstone National Park and the headwaters of the Yellowstone River.
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Two Supreme Court decisions related to clean water protection, in 2001 and 2006, created legal confusion about whether the federal government had the authority to regulate the smaller streams and headwaters and about other water sources such as wetlands.
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Two Supreme Court decisions related to clean water protection, in 2001 and 2006, created legal confusion about whether the federal government had the authority to regulate the smaller streams and headwaters, and about other water sources such as wetlands.
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"I think they're going to have to take (a potential spill) much more seriously than just some hypothetical modeling and really be conscious about the headwaters of the Great Lakes," said Frank Bibeau, lawyer for the Honor the Earth environmental group.
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"There is simply no way to ensure protection of the world's greatest wild salmon ecosystem -- producing 60 million fish this year alone -- from contamination caused by a toxic open pit copper and gold mine in its pristine headwaters," Reynolds said.
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This winter, the Trump administration restarted an environmental review that might allow a Canadian mining company, Northern Dynasty, to bore into the ground at the Bristol Bay headwaters — the source of the bay's rivers — in pursuit of copper and gold.
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Silver Bow Creek was once 26 or so miles long from its headwaters on the Continental Divide, where a tiny thread of water joined Yankee Doodle and Dixie Creeks, each worked by miners from opposing sides in the Civil War.
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Known as "green infrastructure," this emerging approach relies upon nature-based systems and processes, including bioretention, development of coastal wetlands, and preservation and enhancement of forested headwaters, and shows great promise for addressing the water challenges of the 21st century.
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Legal experts say that Mr. Trump's replacement rule would go further than simply repealing and replacing the 2015 Obama rule — it would also eliminate protections to smaller headwaters that have been implemented for decades under the 1972 Clean Water Act.
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Using thousands of indigenous conscripts to hack through the jungle, he found that the headwaters were just six miles apart, on either side of a fifteen-hundred-foot peak, and he conceived a railroad that would unite the two river systems.
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Boral Chief Executive Mike Kane, who is U.S.-born and has worked for several U.S. construction materials companies, said Trump's plans had not factored into the decision to acquire Headwaters but would naturally be positive given its strong position in fly ash.
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Strict laws protect a park created at the heart of the mountain range, embracing many varied habitats, from alpine woods filled with snub-nosed monkeys to the parallel gorges down which thunder the headwaters of three great rivers, the Yangzi, Mekong and Salween.
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In the first full year since it bought U.S. fly-ash maker Headwaters, net profit to June 30 rose 38 percent to A$13 million ($346 million), slightly ahead of analyst expectations, giving its shares their best day in more than nine years.
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A day and a half after the Dawn Chorus listening session, fresh off a long, silent float back to camp from the headwaters of the Zabalo, Hempton and Borman's son, Josh, were playing gin rummy at a makeshift table under a tarp roof.
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Also in May, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, always eager to join in the environmental mayhem, reversed an Obama policy that had blocked a proposed gold mine in the headwaters of Bristol Bay, one of the most productive wild salmon fisheries.
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