Management practices for sediment reduction from forest roads in the coastal plains

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 337-344

  Appelboom, Timothy W ^a   Chescheir, George M ^b   Skaggs, R Wayne ^b   Hesterberg, Dean L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Biol/Agric Engineering ^*

Author keywords

Erosion; Forest BMP; Forest roads; Sediment

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

BERM; GRAVELING;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

POLLUTION; ROAD; SEDIMENT;

EROSION; FOREST; POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; SURFACE WATER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346034829     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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