Because the wetlands are the headwaters for the Midwest's rivers and streams.

因为湿地是中西部河流和溪水的源头。

10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

10 有河从伊甸流出来滋润那园子、从那里分为四道。

Plus Moscow was at the headwaters of four rivers which made it well-positioned for trade.

此外，莫斯科位于四大河流的源头，这使得它在贸易方面处于有利地位。

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

一条河从伊甸园流出， 浇灌着花园；从那里它被分成四个源头。

We stopped the flow of the river of grass from the Florida headwaters, the Everglades headwaters down to Florida Bay.

朱厄尔：我们阻止了草河从佛罗里达源头、大沼泽地源头流向佛罗里达湾。

Both the park and the volcano take their name from the Yellowstone River, whose headwaters are within the confines of the park.

黄石公园和这座火山都以黄石河命名，黄石河的源头在公园的范围之内。

I was sitting on a stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon.

夜半时分，在亚马逊河的源头，我坐一个树墩上，身后是傍水的棕榈叶作屋顶的小村落。

For them, the Headwaters is a kitchen. It's a sanctuary. It's a burial ground of their ancestors. And those who really own it are the generations as yet unborn.

对他们来说，“神圣水源”就是厨房。是圣所，是他们祖先的墓地。真正拥有“神圣水源”的是未出生的后代。

As such, Colorado contains the headwaters for the Rio Grande, Arkansas, Colorado, and South Platte Rivers, while Wyoming contains many of the headwaters for the Missouri, Snake, Columbia, and North Platte Rivers.

因此，科罗拉多州包含格兰德河、阿肯色河、科罗拉多河和南普拉特河的源头，而怀俄明州包含密苏里河、斯内克河、哥伦比亚河和北普拉特河的许多源头。

For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron.

一百多年来，他们一直控制着从烟山河到红河，从加拿大河源头到阿肯色河和西马龙河的分岔口的开阔山脉。