25' buffer around ponds

[rgmcarth at viser.net]

In article <35D0FB0E.633B9345 at forestmeister.com>,
 	Amazing.  In Oregon, they have realized that a lot of the health of 
the streams are based on the shade of the vegetation, but even more from the 
large woody debris and the smaller stuff that breaks up the current and 
creates pools as well as giving the aquatic arthropods something to live in 
and eat, so the trout can eat them. Don't flame me, I'm not calling for 
stuffing the channels full of brush wood. but a clean channel is basically a 
sterile channel.   Also, the more large woody debris (More than eight inches 
in diameter and several feet long--I forget) on the forest floor is ideal 
habitat for amphibians and arthropods(bugs) and the critters that live on 
them.