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Use of Mulches and Soil Stabilizers for Land Reclamation

Norland, M. R. IN: Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands, p. 645-666. American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy Monograph 41. 2000.

The use of a mulch or soil stabilizer is one of several treatment options in any plan for reclaiming drastically disturbed areas. Mulches or soil stabilizers should beused as an aid in reclamation and not as a substitute for proper use of other soil amendments, grading, and shaping for vegetating and stabilizing the area. Thischapter focuses on the humid eastern USA, where many disturbed areas such as highway road banks, surface-mined areas, and construction sites in steep terrain have slopes that are very conducive to soil erosion prior to the establishment of a good vegetative cover.


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Author(s): M. R. Norland

Section: Soil Management and Growing Media