Vegetative filter strips are an extremely beneficial conservation practice. Filter strips protect and improve water quality, provide shelter for small birds and mammals, and reduce soil erosion.

Vegetative filter strips (VFSs) are engineered bands of vegetation established adjacent to agricultural fields, urban developments, and construction sites to intercept surface runoff and reduce the ...

Gov. Mark Dayton has done a great favor to all microeconomics teachers with his call for a requirement that landowners maintain 50-foot-wide filter strips along streams and other bodies of water to ...

Given future growth projections for the Puget Sound region, controlling and treating stormwater runoff in urban areas will become an increasing priority if we are to protect salmon and other cherished ...

Researchers have found several plants, including blue flag iris, that can reduce the amount of common pesticides used on gold courses in soils. Using these plants as a "living filter" on the edge of ...