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Example of a natural, lake-friendly landscape - trees and shrubs growing along the shorelineLakeSmart - Resources to Help You Create a Healthy Maine Landscape

Buffer Handbook

Buffer Plant List (from DEP Buffer Handbook)

Camps -- information for camp owners

Conservation Practices for Homeowners 20 fact sheets, NEW in 2006

Economics of Lakes - Dollar$ and $ense

Designing Your Landscaping for Maine (off site)

Gardening to Conserve Maine's Native Landscape: Plants to Use and Plants to Avoid (offsite) 

Healthy Maine Landscapes - Go Native!

Lake-A-Syst (offsite)

LakeSmart - Introductory brochure

Be LakeSmart for the Sake of Your Lake- brochure NEW in 2006 ( note: you need to print out the brochure to read it, as some of the text will appear upside down on the screen. To view each page click below.)
Page1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, poster (suitable for printing but it is a big file)

Landscape design worksheet (used in LakeSmart Workshop)

Nonpoint Source Pollution (also known as Polluted Stormwater Runoff)

Phosphorus-Free Fertilizer

Potland Water District - Environmental Fact Sheets (from PWD off sight)

Rain Gardens - to treat polluted stormwater runoff

Rain Garden Plants for shade (from CCSWCD)

Rain Garden Plants for sun (from CCSWCD)

Seed Balls - for vegetating riprap or other nutrient poor areas

Suppliers of Erosion Control Mix

Watershed Stewards Program (offsite)

We can have it all -- water quality protection and Canada Goose exclusion (pdf file -- slides)