Riparian Forest Buffers and Reforestation
Keystone Streams helps farming landowners easily protect their land and generate additional revenue while improving local water quality.
Keystone Advantages
Fair Compensation for Conservation Easements
We understand that your land is productive and valuable. We pay landowning farmers for long term conservations easements along waterways.
Professional Forest Planting and Maintenance
Forest plantings use native trees. After planting Keystone Streams maintains the plantings and prevents invasive species growth.
Efficient Process
Your time is valuable. Keystone Streams handles all of the paperwork and reporting requirements to establish the Riparian Forest Buffer.
Our Impact
Keystone Streams’ reforestation and riparian forest buffer projects deliver economic and environmental benefits. Our projects to date have provided significant new revenue to landowners:
By the end of 2026 we will have planted 50,000-plus trees across the Chesapeake Bay watershed to produce biodiversity, flood mitigation, environmental, and water quality benefits. The projected 10-year impact resulting from our plantings to date includes:
Keystone Streams is passionate about water quality.
Planting Riparian Forest Buffers is one of the best ways to achieve water quality benefits for our waterways. Good for farmers and good for watermen.
Despite the benefits of Riparian Forest Buffers, progress planting more has been extraordinarily slow in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
We hope to change that.
Contact Us
Reach out to learn more about how to partner with Keystone Streams on your farm or property.