Control of sediment export from the forest road prism

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1127-1132

  Grace III, John McFero ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation practices; Forest roads; Soil erosion; Surface runoff

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; VEGETATION;

SEDIMENT BASINS;

FORESTRY;

EROSION; FOREST; ROAD; RUNOFF; SOIL;

EROSION CONTROL; FOREST; ROAD; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 0036665333     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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