"ASR is not land intensive, there's no evaporation or soil loss, it's almost like a giant holding tank ."
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Firefighting cost was about $ 17 million, and the Forest Service is spending $ 2.7 million to prevent soil loss.
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Instead of saving 695 million tons of soil, the program only cut soil loss by 398 million tons, the study showed.
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In urban settings, managing areas to prevent soil loss and control stormwater flow are a few of the areas that receive attention.
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"" Soil and Water Conservation " The goal must be to minimize soil losses through conservation tillage and other erosion control practices.
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Some soil loss is unavoidable, creating the need for sediment traps and diversions to control run-off water flows through and off the farm.
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The law requires all farmers to have government-approved plans in place this year for controlling soil loss from " highly erodible land ."
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Globally one of the largest contributors to erosive soil loss in the year 2006 is the slash and burn treatment of tropical forests.
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Take topography : the ideal slope should be less than six degrees to facilitate mechanisation and to reduce soil losses due to erosion.
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"" Deforestation [ 1 ] with resulting desertification, water resource degradation and soil loss has affected approximately 94 % of Madagascar's previously biologically productive lands.
