GRAND FORKS, N.D.-The buffer strip law in Minnesota has been a hot topic, but what exactly is it, why has it been so contentious and what's going on at the state and local level? Here is a guide to ...

A key water-quality initiative of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton last year - vegetative buffer strips along streams and drainage ditches - is returning for an encore performance at the Capitol in St. Paul ...

Growers are being urged to think ahead and create buffer strips to help keep pesticides out of water. Establishing 6m buffer strips on fields that will be used for winter break crops in 2011-12 is ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Major decisions on copper-nickel mining, a water quality summit and a push to reduce carbon emissions by Minnesota’s utilities will be among the top issues on Minnesota’s environmental ...