College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Center for Land Use Education and Research
This part of CLEAR’s Connecticut’s Changing Landscape project looks at land cover and land cover change within riparian corridors of Connecticut. Riparian, or streamside, corridors are known to be environmentally important areas critical to stream stability, pollutant removal, and both aquatic and terrestrial wildlife habitat. These areas are often known as “buffer” areas, but are not to be confused with regulatory review zones, which are often also called buffers. This study looks at land cover and land cover change within these riparian areas for the period 1985 – 2006.
