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Chris May and his colleagues in the Puget Sound area examined the relationship between the size/width of the forest buffer and the amount of impervious cover. They found that as watershed urbanization increases, forest buffer size decreases.

Copyright 2000, Center for Watershed Protection

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Chris May and his colleagues in the Puget Sound have examined the relationship between the size or width of the forest buffer over the amount of impervious cover. As this graph depicts, they found that as watershed urbanization increases, forest buffer size and width decreases.