Buffer strips were implemented to improve water quality, but their effectiveness is difficult to quantify While 99% of Minnesota farmers are compliant, some farmers want data showing them that the ...

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 ...

Landowners are making good progress toward complying with Gov. Mark Dayton’s signature water-quality law, leaving the governor firmly opposed to any legislative attempts to delay or revoke the ...

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 ...

A plan from Dayton identifies a uniform 50-foot buffer strip along state lakes, rivers, streams and ditches as the necessary solution. He said it […] Skip to content. All Sections.

ST. PAUL-Landowners have new state funding and a website to help them comply with a 2015 law requiring vegetative buffer strips to protect Minnesota's waters.The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil ...

Wetland buffer zones and naturally vegetated buffer strips may expand if two articles proposed at the annual town meeting in Mashpee are approved — and future construction projects could be ...

Gov. Dennis Daugaard's office says South Dakota residents have until October to apply for tax incentives meant to encourage people to install buffer strips between agricultural land and waterways.

Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

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 ...

Gov. Dennis Daugaard's administration is proposing a measure to encourage people to install buffer strips between agricultural land and waterways.