Healthy streams are home to diverse fish and wildlife, provide vital drinking water, and create recreation and relaxation opportunities.
Historically, they’ve often been impacted by various land uses that disturb native shoreline vegetation, put water quality at risk and increase flood potential.
Stream Wise is a free nonprofit program that provides resources for landowners adjacent to streams and rivers in the Lake Champlain watershed in New York, Vermont and Quebec.
Free Stream Wise assessments provide landowners the tools they need to better understand their stream buffer and to take steps to improve and protect it with confidence.
If you own land that abuts a stream or river in the Lake Champlain watershed (which includes streams in Warren, Essex, Clinton, and Washington counties) you can sign up for a free Stream Wise property assessment.
In the Ausable or Boquet River watersheds, Ausable Freshwater Center (AFC) is providing Stream Wise assessments – email marque@ausablecenter.org.
Illustrations, from above: A riparian buffer at a stream in Keeseville (provided by AFC); and a Stream Wise stream-side vegetation buffer illustration (courtesy Lake Champlain Basin Program).
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