Download or read book Assessing Landowner Level Costs for Riparian Forest Buffer System Adoption on Farms in Virginia s Chesapeake Bay Watershed written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riparian Forest Buffer Systems contribute to non-point source pollution control and improve the physical and trophic qualities of streams. There is a limited understanding of the full range of costs incurred when implementing a RFBS. Establishment costs will vary with the site characteristics. The amount of forgone income will vary with the current land-use. RFBS enterprises may yield returns that partially or fully offset forgone income. Section A discusses the physical characteristics and functions of RFBS in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Section A argues that RFBS design and site characteristics alter the physical ability of RFBS to produce environmental services. Altering design specifications may come at little environmental loss but might greatly reduce landowner costs. Section B describes a decision support system that can provide landowners and policy makers with financial information on the site specific changes in costs that occur as RFBS designs are altered. Section C utilizes the decision support system software to simulate the common design and site characteristics found within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed of Virginia. Generalizations are drawn concerning reduction efficiencies of a RFBS based on the physical characteristics of the regions. Section D discusses government policies and incentive programs, as well as additional private income opportunities, that may influence the cost and adoption of RFBS. Findings revealed a range of annual per acre cost of adoption between $140.09 rising to a positive return of $124.79, depending on assumptions of site characteristics, land-use, and supplemental financial incentives.
Download or read book Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers written by Julia C. Klapproth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers written by Julia C. Klapproth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Forest Buffers written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landowner Attitudes Toward Multifunctional Riparian Forest Buffers written by Andrea Carol Ferich and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riparian forest buffers are among the most essential best management practices for improving water quality in Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region. The Chesapeake Bay Program has set specific goals for the state of Pennsylvania to greatly increase the length of streams protected by riparian buffers toward improving downstream water quality, yet the state is behind in meeting these targets. Since large segments of riparian lands are privately owned, an understanding of diverse landowner values and behaviors will inform future buffer project implementation strategies. To assess landowners' willingness (or lack thereof) to plant riparian buffers, a survey was conducted of private riparian landowners within the Upper Penns Creek Watershed of central Pennsylvania. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) suggests that current behaviors explain the likelihood of future behavior. Findings indicate that landowner occupation, education, land use, environmental values, and past behaviors toward riparian lands explain the likelihood to plant riparian forest buffers toward multifunctional ecological and socioeconomic goals. The top five reasons surveyed landowners were interested in planting or maintaining riparian buffers are to stabilize the streambank, improve water quality, aesthetic beauty, to enjoy wildlife, recreation, and solitude. The findings demonstrate the need for applying transdisciplinary approaches sensitive to individual landowner values and behaviors in watershed management decision-making, weaving together ecological and socioeconomic values. The study results reveal that there are tremendous new opportunities for planting riparian buffers in Pennsylvania, where the vast majority (76%) of respondents indicated being very likely or likely to plant trees or shrubs in the future in a riparian buffer on their property, and where 30 percent of respondents expressed interest in learning more about buffers. This study reveals the potential for invigorating interest among landowners in planting new multifunctional buffers through incentive and education efforts. The concept of multifunctional buffers, offering landowners the potential to generate additional income from harvesting products (such as nuts, berries, woody florals, forbs, and potentially woody biomass), provides new incentives for landowners to install riparian buffers on their property. Encouraging the expansion of riparian forest buffers will continue to benefit both natural resources and socioeconomic systems.
Download or read book River of Dreams Factors of Riparian Buffer Adoption in a Transitioning Watershed written by Andrea Lee Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization results in diversification of land use, landowner goals, and property management behaviors. As such, water quality related to land use may be less tied to agricultural practices when landscapes transition into other land uses. Much research, however, addressing water quality conservation has focused on agricultural landowners, with little research on the attitudes, behaviors, and conservation practices of hobby or non-farmers. My thesis examines the factors that drive private landowner adoption of riparian buffers in an urbanizing watershed. I use mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to test adoption-diffusion theory, with supporting applications of self-efficacy theory and social identity theory. My findings suggest that adoption of conservation practices such as riparian buffers may apply to non-traditional farmers, with important exceptions and additions of certain factors. Landowners' willingness to adopt riparian buffers is increased with positive outcome expectations, or the perceptions of how and what riparian buffers will improve. More generally, this research calls attention to how little non-farmers know about riparian buffers and that this practice is largely associated with Chesapeake Bay restoration rather than local water quality conservation.
Download or read book An Analysis of Riparian Forest Buffer Policies in Maryland Virginia and Pennsylvania written by Chesapeake Bay Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Functions and Effectiveness of Urban Riparian Forest Buffers written by Outen and published by International Water Assn. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of urban riparian forest buffers for a number of potential functions. States and local jurisdictions are increasingly requiring riparian buffers during the development of land for urban uses. At the same time these same jurisdictions must meet the requirements of Total Maximum Daily Loads for pollutant reduction, NPDES-Municipal Stormwater Discharge Permits, and other environmental programs, such as, the Chesapeake Bay Program that require not only pollutant load reductions, but also habitat improvements. This research provides needed information urban riparian forest buffers through a field research design that incorporated a contrast between three sites with a high degree of forested riparian buffer with three sites that had a low amount of forested buffer. The research included, hydrologic measurements, pollutant concentration and load measurements, temperature recordation, buffer floristic analysis, and stream benthic community analysis. This study demonstrates the value of urban riparian forest buffers as a Best Management Practice and provides a model ordinance for use in the development of local jurisdiction stream buffer requirements. This report is available as a pay-per-view item only.
Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Download or read book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Riparian Handbook written by Roxane S. Palone and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Stock of Riparian Forest Cover written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers written by Julia C. Klapproth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA 903 R written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Forest Buffers written by Chesapeake Bay Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Forest Buffers written by Chesapeake Bay Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Function Design and Establishment of Riparian Forest Buffers written by Julia C. Klapproth and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the interaction of their soils, hydrology, and biotic communities, riparian forests protect and improve water quality, provide habitat for plants and animals, support aquatic communities, and provide many benefits to humans. Virginia, along with other states in the Chesapeake Bay region, has recognized the importance of riparian forests by implementing a plan to restore forested buffers along streams, rivers, and lakes. This project reviews selected literature on riparian forest buffers, including water quality functions, benefits to fish and wildlife, and human benefits. The review also discusses riparian buffer restoration and some of the costs and barriers associated with riparian forest buffer establishment. Information on financial and technical assistance programs available to Virginia landowners is included.
