The maps are part of a plan approved in the previous legislative session. It calls for 50-foot buffer strips on lakes and rivers, but keeps the current 161/2-foot buffer strip requirement along ...

Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota officials released maps showing landowners what water needs plant buffers around it, and how deep the buffers must be. The long-awaited release came Tuesday morning. State law ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is providing a timeline for its production of maps for the state’s new law requiring vegetative buffers around bodies of water. “We understand people have ...

MOORHEAD-Comments are being accepted on buffer maps produced as the result of a water quality and water protection law passed by the Legislature in 2015 called the Buffer Law.

ST. PAUL -- Landowners, counties and watershed districts are now reviewing the preliminary map of Minnesota public waters requiring protective buffers to try to improve the state’s drinking water and ...

The Upper Tukituki River in flood in July. The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has extended the gravel extraction buffer zone in the Tukituki catchment, so farmers can use the gravel for critical cyclone ...

Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is a way of unlocking shale gas from underground Planning rules governing the extraction of shale gas and onshore oil in Scotland will be made tougher, the Scottish ...