Reference Library

Buffers

• Wetlands Bureau, Department of Environmental Services
• Municipal examples:
  • New Durham (Adopted 3/13/07)
    This buffer ordinance was developed with grant funding through the New Hampshire Estuaries Project technical assistance provider program and New Durham received the professional services of Environmental Planner Steve Whitman and conservation biologist Chris Kane who helped develop the ordinance. This is an example of a buffer ordinance that applies to wetlands as well as to lakes, ponds, perennial and intermittent streams. Bob Craycraft -- New Durham Planning Board 859-2866.)
  • Wolfeboro 
• List of municipalities with wetlands buffering requirements as of 3/14/07 (from Municipal Land Use Regulation database)
• "Buffer Zones and Beyond: Wildlife Use of Wetland Buffer Zones and their Protection under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act",  UMASS, Amherst, 2001
• "Buffers for Wetlands and Surface Waters" (11/95 revised 5/97) 
  This document is the result of a cooperative effort between the Audubon Society of NH, UNH Cooperative Extension, the Office of State Planning and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. It provides a summary of the technical basis for vegetative buffer requirements adjacent to priority wetlands and surface waters.
• Planner’s Guide to Wetland Buffers for Local Governments
  The Environmental Law Institute has released a study designed to assist local governments interested in establishing wetland buffer ordinances. Also, the synthesis of the state of the science on wetland/aquatic resource buffers included in the study is of particular interest. This effort was funding with an EPA HQ Wetland Program Development Grant.

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