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Replanting a riparian strip

Volunteers replanting a riparian strip. Reducing stock access to streams and planting native plants along the bank can change the water from murky and polluted into a crystal clear stream teeming with life.

Rights: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

Published: 9 September 2008Size: 325.23 KB

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