Buffer Plantings

You Live on the Edge of the Lake...You can use buffer plantings!

What are buffer plantings? They are plants and landscaping techniques to prevent erosion into the lake waters.

• Mixed root systems of trees, shrubs, and groundcover stabilize banks and access points.
• Buffers protect against noise and enhance your privacy.
• Buffers can protect you against sun and wind.
• Buffers provide shade, shelter and food for shoreline wildlife like loons, cormorants, eagles, and osprey.
• Buffers are attractive, long-lived, easily maintained, and low cost.

Complete information is found by clicking on http://www.state.me.us/dep/blwq/docwatershed/bufa.htm

This is "The Buffer Handbook" - A guide to creating vegetated buffers for lakefront properties" produced by a group of state, federal, and local organizations.

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