Creating buffer strips around the water hazards at Heritage Palms has provided a number of benefits. First and foremost, they help to protect and enhance the environmental quality of the water hazards ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota landowners are on track for meeting the state's first deadline for putting buffer strips of vegetation between cropland and public waters. The Board of Water and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources has issued a timeline and other details as it works to implement Gov. Mark Dayton's buffer strip law. The law will require vegetation ...

FARMERS who have to rethink their rotations after the appalling winter, have been advised to consider the siting of permanent grass buffer strips to protect water. The Voluntary Initiative (VI ...

MORRIS, Minn. -- An environmental listening session held recently in Chokio, Minn., was well attended. It was gratifying to see the interest in the environment, and that politicians other than ...

PIERRE, S.D. -- A bill in the South Dakota legislature would give landowners a tax break for keeping riparian buffer strips along streams, rivers and lakes. Senate Bill 66 would define a riparian ...

WILLMAR -- Four Kandiyohi County property owners will have to pay the price for restoring buffer strips along drainage ditches on their land. The four, who are all located south and southwest of ...

WILLMAR, Minn. - While some parts of Minnesota farm country struggle with a new state law requiring buffer strips around pubic waters, implementation in Kandiyohi County's appears to be off to a ...

MOORHEAD-Comments are being accepted on buffer maps produced as the result of a water quality and water protection law passed by the Legislature in 2015 called the Buffer Law.The law requires ...