The Ausable Freshwater Center discusses the importance of repairing and maintaining the riparian buffers along river banks.

Pesticides can harm aquatic ecosystems and human health, so scientists need to understand how they move from farm fields into ...

In a triumph of science over politics Wednesday afternoon, the Environmental Management Commission’s water-quality committee approved earlier versions of a report on SolarBees that says the devices ...

Sediment is the number one pollutant in U.S. waterways. Over grazing can increase soil erosion from pastures as well as sediment loading into aquatic systems. Grazing management and buffer strips may ...

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 -- ...

Washington’s Growth Management Act (GMA) of 1990 mandated that local governments establish regulations for protecting environmentally sensitive or critical areas, including wetlands, critical aquifer ...

HARRISBURG – A House panel faces a vote Monday on a controversial bill to eliminate a state mandate to have forested buffers along streams designated for special environmental protection because of ...

Work to reestablish the riparian corridor — the natural flora and fauna along waterways — in Keokea Gulch within Hapapa watershed is underway to buffer runoff into streams and the North Kihei ...

WEST CALN — Common shrubs can make a world of difference. The recent planting of 90 shrubs to create a riparian buffer will positively impact the quality of drinking water in Coatesville, while also ...

Sugar Mountain submitted a proposed riparian management plan that calls for a 50-foot buffer along the river, but that was rejected by Will in her review of the proposal. After it received its permit ...

A Seattle law firm leading state-funded talks has presented several more ideas to force farmers and other rural landowners to widen riparian buffers to shade and purify salmon-bearing waterways.