Our popular 2013 guide has been updated for your use! Lands Near Water: Riparian Restoration and Enhancement is now available for free download. We’ve organized it into six steps to guide you through planning, permits, and practices.
This guide is one of our Stewardship Series intended to encourage people to take voluntary stewardship actions, called stewardship practices, to safeguard wildlife and species at risk. Our guide can help you achieve or maintain successful stewardship of riparian areas.
Riparian areas – lands near water – have inherent value and provide ecosystem services. They provide benefits to numerous wildlife species, including many species at risk. They connect habitat, regulate water temperature, and help minimize erosion. In addition to landscape-scale benefits, riparian areas offer numerous benefits to agricultural producers, from drainage to herd health.
We can all benefit from conserving and restoring lands near water. Get off to a great start with Riparian Restoration and Enhancement.
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Case Studies
Exclusion fencing photo: M. Pearson
Our thanks to the farmers, ranchers, and land managers profiled in this guide. Our case studies include riparian restoration at
- Brooksdale Environmental Centre,
- Fraser Common Farm,
- Okanagan Falls Biodiversity Ranch,
- Jacobsen’s Creek – Kiloh Farm,
- Semiahmoo Stables, and
- Brooksdale Centre.
You can read about individual case studies here.
Background
Funding and in-kind support for the pilot (2013) Species at Risk Primer Stewardship Practices project was provided by the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Environment Canada Habitat Stewardship Program, and the Agricultural Environment Initiative of the Agriculture Investment Foundation.
Funding and in-kind support for the 2018 update was provided Environment and Climate Change Canada and also, in part, by the governments of Canada and British Columbia through the Agri-Food Futures Fund. This program is delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C.
