Primary headwaters are best protected by buffers of forest with a 70-80% or more canopy cover.
Various counts describe 400 to over 500 large trees - marked in blue for harvest in 2018, including close to seeps and headwaters.
LaDue Reservoir's main headwater system, north of the forested headwater scheduled for harvest. The Reservoir is part of the drinking water system for the City of Akron.
The Forest Service's guide (page 40) suggests a 50-150' forested buffer when there is shallow groundwater. Plus...
"Where groundwater emerges as a spring or seep, it may flow across the buffer zone too quickly...and a wider buffer may be necessary..."
LaDue's 42-acre pilot forest contains an intrictate system of primary headwaters streams and seeps.
LaDue:
Headwaters & seeps
Side note: Primary headwater
streams* comprise 80% of Ohio's
freshwater stream miles.
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