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FISH REALLY DO GROW ON TREES

Free Workshop for residents that could protect out streams and fish

Free Field Training (invasives)

Fish need trees to grow.

Trees along a stream bank maintain the health of the stream and the fish population in it and become a forested riparian zone.

The forested riparian buffer:

• Helps to maintain the stream bank. The root systems of large woody plants keep the bank from eroding. Eroding banks clog streams with sediment.
• Prevents pollution of the stream by lawn fertilizers or run-off from roads.
• Supplies food for many of the critters that live in the stream, including fish.
• Shades the stream, allowing fish, such as trout who need cold water, to survive.
• Improves wildlife habitat.
• Provides a natural corridor for wildlife.
• Enhances water quality.

If you have a stream side area on or near your property, please try to maintain it as a buffer. Remove only invasive species and replace them with natives. A healthy stream system is dependent on your help.

Links for more information on how to save our creeks

Free Landscape workshop 2008

Why Riparian Buffers? New Garden Township Riparian Buffer Page

Illicit Discharges can kill a creek

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