Featured Buffer Strips

Conservation Buffers: Design Guidelines for Buffers, Corridors, and Greenways

This manual provides over 80 illustrated design guidelines for conservation buffers, based on a review of over 1,400 research publications. Each guideline describes a specific way that a vegetative buffer can be applied to protect soil, improve air and water quality, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, produce economic products, provide recreation opportunities, or beautify...

Vegetative Barriers for Erosion Control

This publication from MU Extension highlights strategies for incorporating vegetative barriers into a soil conservation program. View the web version of this information at the link below:

Field Borders for Agronomic, Economic and Wildlife Benefits

This bulletin from MU Extension discusses the benefits of agronomic, economic, and wildlife benefits of using field borders on your land.  The web version of this bulletin can be found at the following link:

Establishing and Managing Riparian Forest Buffers

This Agroforestry in Action guide from the MU Center for Agroforestry discusses the benefits of riparian buffers, planning and maintenance, and more. Additional Agroforestry in Action publications can be found on the Center for Agroforestry website:

Missouri Prairie Foundation: Prairie Strips

This website from the Missouri Prairie Foundation explains the benefits of prairie strips and offers resources on how to establish them on your land, including how the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can help.

Prairie STRIPS

Learn about Iowa State University's initiative to add prairie strips into crop fields.