Riparian Forest Buffers

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

Keystone Streams understands that your land is productive and valuable. Keystone Streams pays landowning farmers for long term conservations easements along waterways.

Professional Forest Planting and Maintenance

Forest plantings use native trees and shrubs. 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.

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.

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