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EnviroScape® Environmental Restoration and Riparian Kit

EnviroScape Riparian Kit
EnviroScape® Restoration and Riparian Kit * JT&A, inc. © 1990-2010  

EnviroScape's Environmental Restoration and Riparian Kit addresses the benefits and values of restoring the environment and adding riparian buffers — including planting trees and other vegetation adjacent to the banks of streams, rivers and lakes. You can even reforest the clear-cut forest. The guide explores the positive effects of environmental restoration, replanting vegetation and good riparian buffers as well as activities that contribute to a degraded environment and poor riparian buffer zones.

Positive effects include

cooler water temperatures and shading for in-stream organisms (canopy cover);

water infiltration reduced volume and rate of flooding (water infiltration);

protective habitat food sources for in-stream organisms (protective habitat);

stream bank stabilization (erosion control) stream bank stabilization (erosion control);

sediment trapping (plant root systems) sediment trapping and nutrient removal (plant root systems); and

recreational corridors recreational corridors.

The Users Guide details five activities to demonstrate:

nonpoint source pollution Nonpoint source pollution on sparse landscape

flow of water and absorption of roots Moderate flow of water and absorption of roots

nutrient removal Nutrient removal

water temperature and food Water temperature and food

wildlife habitat Wildlife habitat and aesthetic values

The Environmental Restoration and Riparian Kit contains components for a complete demonstration of how restoration activities and riparian buffers positively affect water quality, quantity and flow. Each kit contains 40 trees (30 tall (evergreen) and 10 round (deciduous)), shrubs, clay, assorted roots, flashlight and User's Guide, and can be used with all EnviroScape® scenarios.

This is not a stand alone kit and cannot be used by itself ... but will enhance and expand on any of the EnviroScape® units.

 

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EnviroScape Product
Price + shipping
71005RIP
Riparian Kit
$89 + $18

Patent Number 5,427,530 * JT&A, inc. © 1990-2010
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