Published:
January 1, 1996
Originator:
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

We now recognize that forests along waterways, also known as "riparian forests", are an important resource that protects water quality and provides habitat and food necessary to support fish survival and reproduction. Used as buffers, riparian forests provide a means of helping us achieve our restoration goals in the tributaries. to be most effective, riparian forest buffers need to be planned and implemented on a watershed scale. This allows for a continuous forested buffer linking the headwaters withdownsteam areas. Riparian forest buffers exert the greatest control over small streams.

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