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Stream Improvements

Learn best practices for building near Missouri streams, stabilizing stream banks, and sustainable sand and gravel removal.

Construction Projects Near Streams

Safeguard Missouri's waterways and fish during construction projects. Browse best management practices for building near streams. More

Sand and Gravel Removal Guidelines

Prevent erosion problems on your Missouri property by practicing sustainable sand and gravel removal. This page explains how. More

Tree Revetments Stabilize Stream Banks

A tree revetment, made by anchoring trees along a stream bank, is an inexpensive, effective way of stopping stream bank erosion. More

Missouri Watershed Protection Practice

Download these guidelines about maintaining forested watersheds to protect streams. More

Other Content You May Like

  • Forests and Streams

    How trees can improve your fishing.

  • Ribbons of Life

    Rivers nourish life far from their banks.

  • United States Geological Survey

    A map showing watersheds by 8 digit hydrologic units.

  • Study shows forestry best management practices prevent erosion

    The Conservation Department got a surprising answer when it asked University of Missouri researchers to learn how much erosion its timber harvests were causing on conservation areas in the Ozarks.

  • Vanishing Veins of the Watershed

    Intermittent streams are of constant value to people and wildlife.

  • What's a Healthy Stream?

    Learning about aquatic communities through the RAM program.

  • Headwaters (1966)

    The upper reaches of streams are a wonderful part of this world. But they are delicate and vulnerable environments, often assaulted unknowingly by human use of the land. The film introduces the “citizens” of this unique world, featuring the smallmouth bass, and shows how these creatures live and die in a small community.
    Produced by Missouri Dept. of Conservation (1966).

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