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 ...

Buffers of different vegetation types were equally effective but herbaceous and forest vegetation were more effective when wider. Removal of nitrogen within the water was efficient, ...

Rather than placing buffers only at field edges, contour strips work within fields following the land’s natural contours.These narrow bands of long-standing, often perennial vegetation that are ...

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 ...

The agreement calls for vegetation buffer zones to screen the solar project from the businesses’ view. The Battle Creek Solar 1 project will be built on a 40.6-acre piece of land near businesses ...

WILLMAR -- It turns out the state's buffer law -- part of which takes effect this fall -- does not necessarily mean that vegetation must be planted between farm fields and drainage ditches or ...

All drainage ditches to require 16.5-foot buffers, some may need 50 feet New buffer law prompts confusion over requirements for vegetation | News | mankatofreepress.com Skip to main content ...

Koochiching County commissioners this week questioned new legislation that requires perennial vegetation buffers on public waters and drainage systems. The buffer initiative, signed into law in ...