Riparian and Upland Pervious Area Restoration

Need trees? Remaining natural areas such as riparian buffers, local parks, and greenway corridors are good opportunities to combine habitat, recreation, carbon reduction, and stormwater treatment objectives in your community. This section provides resources detailing restoration techniques for pervious areas from managing invasives, to tree planting, to soil amendments.

Urban Reforestation Site Assessment
Authors: Center for Watershed Protection Released: 2004

An appendix of Urban Tree Planting Guide, Part 3 of the Urban Watershed Forestry Guide, The Urban Reforestation Site Assessment (URSA) is used to collect detailed information about planting site conditions. It provides a tool to help organize important data to help determine where and what to plant, and what special methods are needed to prepare the site and reduce conflicts due to existing site constraints. Used to collect data at the most promising reforestation sites in an urban watershed, in order to develop detailed planting plans. All available information about an individual planting area is contained in a single form.

Contiguous Forest Field Form
Authors: Center for Watershed Protection Released: 2004

Use the Contiguous Forest Assessment field sheet to develop good representative characterization of the land under consideration for protection.

Fall Foliage and The Watershed

This brief article addresses how important forests are to the Health of the Chesapeake Bay and within neighborhoods.

The Practice of Watershed Protection Articles

Below are articles from The Practice of Watershed Protection that pertain specifically to this topic. To purchase the hardbound book or CD of these articles, please visit our store. For citing these articles, add the article author and title to the following: The Practice of Watershed Protection. 2000. T. Schueler and H. Holland, eds. Center for Watershed Protection. Ellicott City, MD. Authors of each individual article are listed as initials at the end of the article, with full names as follows: Carol Anne Barth (CAB), Ken Brown (KBB), Ted Brown (EWB), Whitney Brown (WEB), Deborah Caraco (DSC), Richard Claytor (RAC), Hye Yeong Kwon (HYK), Jennifer McClean (JMC), Ron Ohrel (RLO), Janet Pelley (JP), Eric Reeves (ER), Chris Swann (CS) and Jennifer Zielinski (JAZ). To view comprehensive list of all downloadable articles from this book, visit the Practice of Watershed Protection Articles page.

34. Loss of White Cedar in New Jersey Linked to Stormwater Runoff
35. Wetter Is Not Always Better: Flood Tolerance of Woody Species
36. The Compaction of Urban Soils
37. Can Urban Soil Compaction Be Reversed
38. Choosing Appropriate Vegetation for Salt-Impacted Roadways
39. The Architecture of Urban Stream Buffers
40. Urbanization, Stream Buffers and Stewardship in Maryland
41. Invisibility of Stream and Wetland Buffers in the Field
42. Techniques for Improving the Survivorship of Riparian Plantings
43. Impact of Riparian Forest Cover on Mid-Atlantic Stream Ecosystems
44. The Return of the Beaver

 

Links

Riparian Forest Buffer Design and Maintenance

This guide, from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, has been prepared for those who wish to establish a forest buffer in the Chesapeake Bay Region efficiently, effectively, and with a minimum of maintenance.

Riparian Buffer Width, Vegetative Cover, and Nitrogen Removal Effectiveness: A Review of Current Science and Regulations

This EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process and remove excess anthropogenic nitrogen from surface and ground waters.

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