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Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society
Cows and Fish
At Cows and Fish, we strive to foster a better understanding of how improvements in grazing and other management of riparian areas can enhance landscape health and productivity, for the benefit of landowners, agricultural producers, communities and others who use and value riparian areas.
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Our Publications
Caring for the Green Zone: Riparian Areas and Grazing Management
Third Edition.
How riparian systems work, the things that can disturb their healthy function and grazing strategies to keep them healthy. (40 pages)
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Riparian Areas: A User’s Guide to Health
What does health of a flood plain or shoreline look like? By tuning our eye to key things to look for, we can take the next step - ensuring we maintain or focus on where to begin to improve riparian area health. (46 pages)
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This booklet has been written for the people who can most effectively influence watersheds and riparian areas - landowners, municipalities, conservation groups and industry. Beaver have been building and modifying watersheds for thousands of years. This booklet will help you gain a better understanding of beaver biology and ecology, their role in watershed health and functions, how beaver can help us adapt to a changing climate, beavers as a watershed restoration tool and thoughts on beaver management. (43 pages, 11 MB)
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