High phosphate levels cause algae blooms, which deplete oxygen and cause fish kills. The buffer strip law requires up to 50 feet of perennial vegetation between cropland and ditches or lakes.

As of today, that’s entirely legal — there are no requirements for a vegetative, or “buffer,” strip along this county-managed 6.4-mile stream. Within a few years, that will change.

Prairie strips are a novel edge-of-field vegetative system, already demonstrated as a cost-effective strategy for substantially improving water quality in runoff from row-cropped agricultural ...

TASS/. The Israeli armed formations have been moved to the buffer strip on the Golan Heights, which separate territories controlled by Israel from Syria, amid the recent developments in the Arab ...