Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Nearly a year after Minnesota's controversial buffer program was signed into law, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources continues to make progress on releasing preliminary ...

The Upper Tukituki River in flood in July. The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has extended the gravel extraction buffer zone in the Tukituki catchment, so farmers can use the gravel for critical cyclone ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota officials released maps showing landowners what water needs plant buffers around it, and how deep the buffers must be. The long-awaited release came Tuesday morning. State law ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources today announced its schedule to produce maps required under the buffer initiative passed by the Legislature earlier this year. This fall, the DNR will use ...

"Buffer strips" of year-round vegetation are seen as one way to help protect water from farm runoff. New state laws require them along nearly every public waterway. On Tuesday, the state released a ...

ST. PAUL -- Landowners, counties and watershed districts are now reviewing the preliminary map of Minnesota public waters requiring protective buffers to try to improve the state’s drinking water and ...

The Department of Natural Resources has released the first of two planned updates to Minnesota’s buffer map that was first released in July. The map shows public waters and public ditches requiring ...

Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is a way of unlocking shale gas from underground Planning rules governing the extraction of shale gas and onshore oil in Scotland will be made tougher, the Scottish ...