Workshops to cover erosion for landowners
Rural Action and the Tuscarawas Soil and Water Conservation District will host two workshops this year to educate property owners about how to best protect their land against erosion.
Rural Action and the Tuscarawas Soil and Water Conservation District will host two workshops this year to educate property owners about how to best protect their land against erosion.
The workshops will be held on Wednesday, June 20 and Wednesday, July 11 at the Norma Johnson Center’s Brandywine Center, located on old state Route 39 in Dover. The session on June 20 will focus on agriculture and how farmers can optimize their streamside land use, and the session on July 11 will focus on urban living and how near-water households can improve the quality of their backyard streams or creeks.
Each workshop will run from 6-8 p.m. Several guest speakers will present on the best methods for planting riparian buffers, detail the permits needed to improve stream banks and give a live demonstration of planting willow cuttings. Cost of attendance is free, and refreshments will be provided.
“Riparian zones have important ecological functions and can impact the economics of land use,” said Marissa Lautzenheiser, watershed coordinator in the Middle Tuscarawas River Watershed. “They are the stretches of land that link water to soil. They act as buffers, keeping dirt from running off into the stream.”
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