Viewpoint: Applying riparian buffers to Great Plains rangelands

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 428-431

  Dosskey, Michael G ^a,b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Management; Stream protection; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION; RANGELAND; RIPARIAN;

GREAT PLAINS; USA;

EID: 0031817716     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003328     Document Type: Article

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