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Planning For Multi-Purpose Riparian Management, Gary Bentrup, Mike Dosskey, Kelly Klenke, Tim Leininger, Michele Schoeneberger, Gary Wells

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

Proper riparian management can provide numerous environmental, social, and economic benefits. At the USDA National Agroforestry Center, we are tailoring the land-use planning process to facilitate riparian management in the Western Corn Belt ecoregion for multiple benefits. This planning framework integrates regional, landscape and site scale planning approaches into a unified framework. In this framework, regional and landscape-scale public issues are addressed along with site-scale landowner objectives to facilitate balanced management plans providing broad mutual benefits. Our question-driven framework provides general guidance for inventory and analysis, preparation of planning objectives, and development and evaluation of management options. To support the …