Researchers know that adding natural buffers to the farm landscape can stop soil from vanishing. Now a scientist has found that more buffers are better, both for pleasing the eye and slowing erosion.

Your yard should be your outdoor retreat and the place where you can relax and entertain. Even if you have great neighbors, you don’t want them peering into your yard or feeling like everyone in your ...

OLIVIA - One of the state’s best-known attorneys in the area of farm drainage law expects that there will be court challenges to the state’s new buffer law, and possible legislative efforts for change ...

Homeowners are being asked to plant trees to help improve streams. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service and The Potomac Watershed Partnership present the Backyard Buffer program ...