The Trees for Streams program can help landowners to install a forested buffer on their property along a stream or river. Grant funding can cover the cost of trees, installation and some maintenance and upkeep. Vegetative buffers have countless benefits, all of which enhance and improve upon the value of your land as well as the property of your neighbors. In addition to benefiting the property value of your land, riparian buffers increase available wildlife cover and food supply, improve aquatic habitat, protect water quality, increase connectivity of wild lands, reduce erosion and flooding damage and improve aesthetics. 

Planting a buffer on the portion of your property would help protect natural resources, roads and structures. Riparian buffers provide bank stability that can reduce erosion after stormwater events. Without buffers, erosion from these stormwater events can lead to a loss of land, increased sedimentation in the river, and runoff. With our Trees For Streams program, we allow you to select from native trees to create a 35 to 100 foot buffer from human-used land and a waterway. 

To learn more about the program, please reach out to sullivan.wcnrcd@gmail.com.

 For a more detailed graphic supporting vegetated buffers, click below: