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Find out if your streamside areas are healthy and what to do to care for them with this easy-to-use self-assessment.

A Riparian Area Assessment Guide (2.7MB)

This 30-page guide gets pretty technical, but it helps you determine your streams’ health by answering yes/no questions. Pages 20-28 of the PDF are especially useful thanks to photo examples. And while the guide was developed for Arkansas landowners, its information and process are useful wherever your streams are.

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