1st Edition
Soil and Water Conservation Handbook Policies, Practices, Conditions, and Terms
By Paul W. Unger
Copyright 2006
262 Pages
by
CRC Press
266 Pages
by
CRC Press
266 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Save time and effort with this practical guide to all aspects of water and soil conservation Soil and Water Conservation Handbook is a concise, compact encyclopedia of the policies, practices, conditions, and terms related to soil and/or water conservation. This handy A-to-Z guide contains descriptions of more than 700 entries, presented in a practical, non-technical format that’s suitable... Read more
- Foreword (B. A. Stewart)
- Preface
- Introduction
- Alphabetical List of Entries
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Barriers
- Best Management Practices
- Brush
- Chemicals, Agricultural (Restrictions on Use)
- Climate
- Competition
- Conservation
- Construction Activities Other Than Agricultural
- Contour
- Crop
- Cropping System/Sequence
- Crops
- Desertification
- Desert Torrent
- Direct Seeding
- Drill/Planter Type
- Dryland Farming
- Earthworms
- Environment
- Eroded Sites/Conditions
- Erodibility
- Erosion
- Erosion Prediction
- Erosivity
- Evaporation
- Evapotranspiration
- Exploitation of Natural Resources
- Farm Size (Farmer Resources)
- Fences
- Field Length and Width
- Financial Aspects
- Forest
- Freeze-Thaw Cycle
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetics (Improved Crops)
- Governmental Factors
- Grass Cover in Planted Crops
- Human Factors
- Infiltrability
- Infiltration
- Information
- Infrastructure
- Irrigation
- Land
- Latitude
- Management
- Mass Movement
- Mining
- Mulch/Mulching
- Natural Disaster
- Natural Vegetation/Native Condition
- Percolation
- Perennial Grasses and Other Vegetation
- Pests
- Phreatophyte
- Plant
- Planter/Seeder Type
- Planting/Seeding
- Production Level
- Rangelands/Grasslands/Pastures
- Residues
- Runoff
- Season
- Sedimentation
- Sediment-Retention Basin
- Soil
- Soils
- Straw Spreader
- Stream Erosion Control
- Stripper Header
- Sustainable Agriculture/Sustainability
- Threshold Value
- Tillage
- Traffic Ruts
- Transpiration
- Underflow
- Water Control Practices
- Watershed
- Water Shortage
- Water Table Fluctuation
- Woodland
- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Plants, Animals, and Other Organisms
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Paul W. Unger
