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How Can I Help Restore and Protect Streamside Buffers? |
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If you are a landowner: - Plant native species of trees and shrubs.
- Stop mowing to the streams edge.
- Join your local watershed conservation organizations.
- Protect buffers through conservation easements.
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Nearly two-thirds of voters approved $400 million for water and sewer upgrades that will support 12,000 Pennsylvania jobs. This broad support expressed by Pennsylvania voters on Election Day will enable communities across the state to make critical repairs and upgrades to their water and sewer systems. |
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What is a Streamside Forest or Riparian Forest Buffer? |
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A riparian buffer is an area of vegetation that is maintained along the shore of a water body to protect stream channels and banks. Buffers can reduce the pollutants entering a stream, lake or pond by trapping, filtering and converting sediments, nutrients and other chemicals in runoff from surrounding lands.
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The Energy Independence Strategy |
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The Energy Independence Strategy: Protecting Consumers, Growing the Economy, Strengthening National Security |
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Why Reforest Pennsylvania's Streamsides? |
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Although 63 percent of Pennsylvania is covered by forest, today's mature woods are not evenly distributed. Most of the forests have vanished in agricultural areas and rapidly developing urban centers, particularly in southcentral and southeastern Pennsylvania.
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