The Buffer Handbook
A Guide to Creating Vegetated Buffers for Lakefront Properties (1998)
Table of Contents
This manual is out of print and is not currently available in hardcopy.
Picture: Evergreen trees, mugho pines, and heather have been combined on this steeply sloped, sunny, dry site. Heather, given the right soil and light, can be grown in most areas of zones 4 and 5 in Maine.
Developed by:
Phoebe Hardesty, Androscogggin Valley Soil & Water Conservation District, P.O. Box 1938,
Lewiston, Maine 04241
Cynthia Kuhns, Lake & Watershed Resource Management Associates, P.O. Box 65, Turner, Maine 04282
With funding provided by:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boston Regional Office and Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Acknowledgements
This handbook was published with the help of the Clean Water Act, Section 319 funds, under a grant awarded to the Androscoggin Valley Soil & Water Conservation District, by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Boston Regional Office. Special thanks to Kathy Hoppe and Karen Hahnel, MDEP, for their insightful comments, patience, and unfailing good humor. Rachel Gallant, AmeriCorps member at the MDEP, did the layout and additional editing.
Most of the graphics used throughout the text were developed by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Brian Kent drew the shoreland zoning picture on page 16, and John Luoma drew the buffer picture on page 18. Photographs were provided by Scott Williams, Lake & Watershed Resource Management Associates; Lisa Krall, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Phoebe Hardesty, AVSWCD.
