A vegetated buffer, barrier, or filter strip is a parcel of land that is designated to separate land used for agriculture from valued aquatic or terrestrial habitats. It exists partly with the intent to diffuse runoff and to impeded sediment, nutrients, pesticides, and other constituents from reaching off-site surface waters. Mandatory buffer implementation is regulated at various levels of government in North America - from the federal to the state and provincial levels, and by some municipalities and counties. To better understand the degree and breadth of oversight, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of vegetative buffer regulations across North America. We determined the width of buffer required, under what habitat or field conditions, for which pesticides, and application type, amongst other attributes. For ground application, margins ranged from 1 m to upwards of greater than 4000 m depending on protection goals, with some being compound specific and others being generally applied to all registered pesticides/compounds. These buffers tended to be used most often to protect surface water, groundwater (e.g. drinking water wells), and nearby sensitive crops, but the required distances are generally not consistent between jurisdictions, regardless of the stated protection goals. We recommend that a thorough science-based review take place, with input from relevant stakeholders, to harmonize vegetated buffer size for effective surface water protection where ecological, climatic, and agricultural conditions are sufficiently similar in North America.
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Univ Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USAUniv Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USA
Smith, Elizabeth M.
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US Geol Survey, Oregon Water Sci Ctr, 601 SW 2nd Ave Suite 1950, Portland, OR 97204 USAUS Geol Survey, Oregon Water Sci Ctr, 601 SW 2nd Ave Suite 1950, Portland, OR 97204 USA
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Islam, R.
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Guevara, Mario
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Univ Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USA
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Geociencias, Juriquilla, Queretaro, MexicoUniv Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USA
Guevara, Mario
Tarin, Tonantzin
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Tarin, Tonantzin
Pouyat, Richard, V
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Univ Delaware, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Newark, DE 19717 USA
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US Geol Survey, Oregon Water Sci Ctr, 601 SW 2nd Ave Suite 1950, Portland, OR 97204 USAUS Geol Survey, Oregon Water Sci Ctr, 601 SW 2nd Ave Suite 1950, Portland, OR 97204 USA
Simeone, Caelan
McCabe, Greg
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Olson, Carolyn
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Islam, R.
Reeder, R.
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Li, Dongyue
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