How did fixed-width buffers become standard practice for protecting freshwaters and their riparian areas from forest harvest practices?

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  2012

• Venue

  Freshwater Science

• Publication date

  2012-01-24

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1899/11-031.1
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