Terraces, conservation tillage, and conservation buffers save soil and improve water quality on this Iowa farm. 1999. Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development and construction. This usually involves the creation of some sort of physical barrier, such as vegetation or rock, to absorb some of the energy of the wind or water that is causing the erosion. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x2100, 427 KB) Terraces, conservation tillage and conservation buffers save soil and improve water quality on this farm in Woodbury County in northwest Iowa. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x2100, 427 KB) Terraces, conservation tillage and conservation buffers save soil and improve water quality on this farm in Woodbury County in northwest Iowa. ... For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion (morphology). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Construction (disambiguation). ...

Examples of some erosion control methods include:

• conservation tillage
• contour plowing
• cover crops
• gabions
• hydroseeding
• level spreaders
• mulching
• polyacrylamide
• reforestation
• riparian strip
• riprap
• strip farming
• vegetated waterways
• terracing
• wattle (construction)
• windbreaks

No-till farming, also known as conservation tillage, is a way of growing crops from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. ... Contour plowing, Pennsylvania, 1938 Contour ploughing or contour farming is the farming practice of ploughingg across a slope following its contours. ... Broadly defined, a cover crop is any annual, biennial, or perennial plant grown as a monoculture (one crop type grown together) or polyculture (multiple crop types grown together), to improve any number of conditions associated with sustainable agriculture. ... Historically, Gabions were round cages with open tops and bottoms, made from wicker and filled with earth for use as fortifications. ... Hydroseeding being carried out at the Isle of Grain, Kent, UK Hydroseeding (or hydromulching, hydraulic mulch seeding, hydraseeding) is a planting process which utilizes a slurry of seed and mulch. ... In agriculture and gardening, mulch is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate. ... Polyacrylamide is an acrylate polymer formed from acrylamide subunits that is readily cross-linked. ... Biodiversity on a 15-year-old reforested plot of land. ... Riprap (also known as rip rap or shot rock) is rock or other material used to stabilize shore. ... Strip farming is a method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long, or when other types of farming may not prevent soil erosion. ... Terraced vineyards near Lausanne The Incan terraces at Písac are still used today. ... A windbreak,or shelterbelt, is usually made up of one or more rows of trees planted in such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to prevent soil erosion. ...

See also

• Baer's law
• Burned area emergency response
• Coastal management
• Dust Bowl
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Stormwater
• Vetiver

Baers law, named after Karl Ernst von Baer, says that in the northern hemisphere, erosion occurs mostly on the right banks of rivers, and in the southern hemisphere on the left banks. ... Debris Rack (NRCS) Burned area emergency response (BAER) is an emergency risk management reaction to post wildfire conditions that pose risks to human life and property or could further destabilize or degrade the burned lands. ... This article is about coastal management aimed to prevent erosion and flooding. ... Farmer and two sons during a dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 The Dust Bowl, or the dirty thirties, was a period of horrible dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940), caused by severe... The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a relatively small government agency in the United States Department of Agriculture currently comprised of about 12,000 employees. ... Stormwater is a term used to describe water that originates during precipitation events. ... Binomial name Chrysopogon zizanoides (L.) Roberty Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides) is a perennial grass of the Poaceae native to India. ...

External links

• Erosion Control - a trade magazine for the erosion control industry
• International Erosion Control Association - Professional Association, Publications, Training
• Soil Bioengineering and Biotechnical Slope Stabilization - Erosion Control subsection of a website on Riparian Habitat Restoration
• Watchyourdirt - Home of 'Dirt Time' a television series for the erosion control industry