Soil Erosion Service

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• Erosion prediction — Soil erosion prediction models play an important role both in meeting practical needs of soil conservation goals and in advancing the scientific understanding of soil erosion processes. They are used to help land managers choose practices to… …   Wikipedia

• Soil conservation — is set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinization, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination. The principal approaches these strategies… …   Wikipedia

• Erosión — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Se denomina erosión al proceso de sustracción o desgaste de la roca del suelo intacto (roca madre), por acción de procesos geológicos exógenos como las corrientes superficiales de agua o hielo glaciar, el viento o la …   Wikipedia Español

• Soil — For other uses, see Soil (disambiguation). A represents soil; B represents laterite, a regolith; C represents saprolite, a less weathered regolith; the bottommost layer represents bedrock …   Wikipedia

• soil — soil1 soilless, adj. /soyl/, n. 1. the portion of the earth s surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus. 2. a particular kind of earth: sandy soil. 3. the ground as producing vegetation or as cultivated for its crops: fertile soil. 4. a… …   Universalium

• Soil Conservation Act and Domestic Allotment Act, 1935, 1936 —    In 1933, Congress made the Soil Conservation Service part of the Department of the Interior on a permanent basis, then relocated it within the Department of Agriculture in 1935, and established soil conservation districts throughout the… …   Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

• National Cooperative Soil Survey — From a Report of Bureau of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1923. The National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) in the United States is a nation wide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This… …   Wikipedia

• Natural Resources Conservation Service — Agency overview Formed April 20, 1932 Preceding agency Soil Erosion Service …   Wikipedia

• 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 …   Wikipedia

• Soil resilience — refers to the ability of a soil to resist or recover their healthy state in response to destabilising influences this is a subset of a notion of environmental resilience . This overview provides a discussion of soil resilience in the context of… …   Wikipedia

• Universal Soil Loss Equation — Models of soil erosion play critical roles in soil and water resource conservation and nonpoint source pollution assessments, including: sediment load assessment and inventory, conservation planning and design for sediment control, and for the… …   Wikipedia