My 2 acre pond is completely surrounded by pines. There is only about a 40-50 foot buffer from the waters edge. Still...every year baby pines come up all over my ponds bank like grass growing!! I mow what I can and the ones I really can't get to I wait till they are a little larger and then walk down the steep banks and cut them one at a time!! Sooo...in my opinion a 50 ft buffer is not near enough!!

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