Minnesota farmers are hovering near 99% compliance with a buffer law that’s been enforced since 2017. That’s a sign of success in a state filled with waterways, wetlands and over 14,000 lakes that are ...

The buffer strip law in Minnesota has been a hot topic, but what exactly is it, why has it been so contentious and what’s going on at the state and local level? Here is a guide to the controversial ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn.-I appreciate Mike Van Horn's words about Minnesota's buffer-strip law ("Buffer-strip law is 'unconstitutional land grab'," letter, Page A4, Feb. 28). I agree with him 100 percent ...

Water hazards create strategic and aesthetic interest and they enhance the environmental value of golf courses. They also can hold and filter stormwater runoff from the course and surrounding ...

Of all the soil conservation compliance methods available today, grass waterways and buffer strips are among the most widely used. Buffer strips can be used to protect streams and ponds or can be ...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has ceded ground to farm interests, Republicans and some Democrats over a contentious aspect of his plan to require vegetative buffer strips to help protect water ...

Research has proven such strips help filter out phosphorus, nitrogen and sediment Mapping the state to determine locations for buffer strips is expected to take until July Effort costs at least $22 ...

A key water-quality initiative of Gov. Mark Dayton last year — vegetative buffer strips along streams and drainage ditches — is returning for an encore performance at the Capitol in St. Paul this week ...

PIERRE, S.D. - A bill in the South Dakota legislature would give landowners a tax break for keeping riparian buffer strips along streams, rivers and lakes. Senate Bill 66 would define a riparian ...

ST. PAUL-Landowners have new state funding and a website to help them comply with a 2015 law requiring vegetative buffer strips to protect Minnesota's waters. The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil ...

"Buffer strips" of year-round vegetation are seen as one way to help protect water from farm runoff. New state laws require them along nearly every public waterway. On Tuesday, the state released a ...