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• NOx emissions contribute to nitrogen deposition that may lead to eutrophication of estuaries and near-coastal waters and can damage forested watersheds.
Nitrogen saturation of watersheds contributes to environmental problems such as reduced drinking water quality, nitrateinduced toxic effects on freshwater organisms, increased soil acidification and aluminum mobility, increased emissions from soil of nitrogenous greenhouse trace gases, reduction of methane consumption in soil, and forest decline and reduced productivity.
In the long term, other spatial divisions may be more appropriate for estimating environmental exposure - watersheds, aquifers, or local public water systems for water-borne substances, or "windsheds" for airborne substances.
Restore and maintain the health of the land: Understand and plan for the condition and use of the public lands by conducting assessments and completing land use plan evaluations; restore at-risk resources and maintain functioning systems, particularly riparian areas and watersheds; incorporate management land health standards into decisions and plans; implement the National Fire Plan; and emphasize resource protection by assuring that work commitments for monitoring and inspection are met, appropriate enforcement actions are taken, and results are recorded.
occurrence and effects of coastal eutrophication and episodic acidification, particularly withrespect to high elevation watersheds; and