A new Landowner Guide to Buffer Success is now available on how to plant, maintain and enhance the effectiveness of forested stream buffers to improve water quality.

Made available through Pennsylvania’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and DEP’s Growing Greener Program, the new Guide provides month by month activities to ensure the success of a buffer, tips to save time and improve outcomes, invasive species removal, blank areas for making notes for the future, example photos, a summary of how forested buffers help streams and a list of additional resources.

Forested stream buffers not only remove 200 to 800 percent more nitrogen pollution from water than a grass-only buffer, they increase the quality of stream bottom habitat, provide streamside habitat for birds and other wildlife and reduce stream temperatures.

A copy of the Guide is available online. (it’s a large PDF file)

For more information, visit the CREP website or call 1-800-941-CREP.

5/18/2007