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Understand My Streamside Areas

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The first step in caring for your streamside area is to understand what and where they are.

Caring for Your Streams and the Wildlife that Depend on Them (4.4MB)

This 2-page factsheet offers suggestions on how protect your streamside areas during logging. These areas are especially important for wildlife and water, and they are sensitive to disturbance.

Riparian Buffers Do's and Don'ts

This quick, 1-page factsheet lists both practices that can help your streamside areas and others that can harm them.

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