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Penn State

stream edges

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This is the first long-term study in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to model how harvesting vegetation affects riparian buffer performance. Allowing farmers to harvest vegetation from their riparian buffers and sell it for biofuels would go a long way toward persuading farmers to establish riparian buffers, researchers contend

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