Forestry initiative helps landowners in Marais des Cygnes basin protect streams
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The Marais des Cygnes Riparian Forestry Initiative continues to assist landowners in the basin to plant and manage trees along streams to improve water quality. The Forestry Initiative focuses on forestry best management practices for restoring and protecting water quality. Installing forest buffers along riparian areas decreases stream bank erosion, provides filtration of pollutants entering waterways and reduces sediment entering the streams.