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Category : Buffer zones (Ecosystem management)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: David J. Welsch
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Category : Streambank planting
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Discusses how streamside forests are crucial to the protection and enhancement of the water resources of the Eastern United States.

Author: Outen
Publisher: International Water Assn
ISBN: 9781843397014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This project was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of urban riparian forest buffers for a number of potential functions. States and local jurisdictions are increasingly requiring riparian buffers during the development of land for urban uses. At the same time these same jurisdictions must meet the requirements of Total Maximum Daily Loads for pollutant reduction, NPDES-Municipal Stormwater Discharge Permits, and other environmental programs, such as, the Chesapeake Bay Program that require not only pollutant load reductions, but also habitat improvements. This research provides needed information urban riparian forest buffers through a field research design that incorporated a contrast between three sites with a high degree of forested riparian buffer with three sites that had a low amount of forested buffer. The research included, hydrologic measurements, pollutant concentration and load measurements, temperature recordation, buffer floristic analysis, and stream benthic community analysis. This study demonstrates the value of urban riparian forest buffers as a Best Management Practice and provides a model ordinance for use in the development of local jurisdiction stream buffer requirements. This report is available as a pay-per-view item only.

Author: David J. Welsch
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Category : Streambank planting
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Julia C. Klapproth
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Category : Riparian ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.

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Category : Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: South Carolina. Statewide Task Force on Riparian Forest Buffers
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Category : Buffer zones (Ecosystem management)
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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Author: Julia C. Klapproth
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Category : Nonpoint source pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Julia C. Klapproth
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Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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