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Also known as riparian buffers and filter strips, stream buffers are listed under NYS Climate Smart Communities as a climate resiliency action. "Riparian buffers include floodplains and other natural areas between streams or other water bodies and human land uses. Expanding riparian buffer areas and restoring vegetation, especially native trees and shrubs, in buffer areas can help reduce some of the impacts of existing and projected future flooding. Vegetation along streams, wetlands, and other water bodies can protect or restore those water bodies and contribute a natural buffer around flood zones. Healthy vegetated riparian buffers can intercept rainfall, filter runoff, capture sediment, absorb excess floodwaters, provide shade and reduce stream temperatures, reduce erosion, and slow down the flow of the water. They also offer benefits to habitat and contribute to ecosystem resiliency. Riparian buffers can help reduce the effects of heavy precipitation events and store water through droughts. Restoring vegetated buffers is important in flood-prone areas, but also in areas upstream of those places to reduce the speed and potentially the volume of floodwaters."