The area where streams meet land is important for maintaining water quality. The Sept. 7 Sustainable, Secure Food blog explains how use of buffer strips can protect water quality and ecosystems. “The ...

Although riparian forest buffers are often designed primarily for water quality benefits, these practices can also include woody species that provide products such as nuts, fruit, and decorative woody ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A break on property taxes hasn’t spurred much participation in a cleaner-water program meant to reduce runoff from agricultural fields and pastures in South Dakota. So state ...

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 ...

The typical home gardener has probably not had much experience with riparian buffers, but it’s an important subject to those interested in water conservation, wildlife habitat and land-use practices ...

Sediment is the number one pollutant in U.S. waterways. Over grazing can increase soil erosion from pastures as well as sediment loading into aquatic systems. Grazing management and buffer strips may ...

PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Hunter Roberts told the Legislature's interim Joint Committee on Appropriations on Monday, Dec. 6, ...

Farmers will begin to get tax credits next year for growing long grass in the space between their crops and the streams and lakes on their property. The state began accepting applications for riparian ...