Forest buffers incorporate trees to stabilize stream banks, reduce erosion and provide shade that cools water, creating thermal refuge for aquatic species. Herbaceous buffers provide an additional ...

Allowing farmers to harvest vegetation from their riparian buffers will not significantly impede the ability of those streamside tracts to protect water quality by capturing nutrients and sediment -- ...

Streams are dynamic and complex systems that include the active channel as well as its floodplain or riparian zone. Riparian zones – which are characterized by high levels of interactions between ...

After Connecticut's housing bill dominated headlines in 2025, another legislative fight is quietly taking shape over riparian buffers - an environmental safeguard with major implications for ...

Amber Ellis from the James River Association visits the studio to explain the importance of forested riparian buffers, the different growing zones within them and shares tips on the tools for planting ...

"Riparian" is from the Latin word "ripa," meaning "riverbank." Riparian buffers protect waterways from excess nutrients in farm field runoff and urban pollution caused by everyday human activities.

Monroe County is home to a high concentration of clean, pristine waterways, which are increasingly threatened by the expansion of the logistics industry. Recently, 94% of Poconos residents say they ...

Worried about water quality in your stream? Plant a tree next to it, says the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, or DNCR. The DCNR recently announced a new stream buffer ...

“It starts, like, over there,” said Julie Slavet, pointing toward a soccer field on the campus of Abington Junior High School, six or so miles north of Philadelphia, in Montgomery County. It was a ...

Washington farm groups are concerned the Department of Ecology will punish farmers and ranchers who decline to adopt large riparian buffers and other “best management practices.” Ecology labels the ...