ESTABLISHMENT OF VEGETATION ON SUBSOILS

AN EXPERIMENT DESIGNED TO SCREEN AND SELECT GRASSES, LEGUMES AND GROUND COVERS FOR SUBSOIL PLANTING SITES ON SLOPES WAS CONDUCTED. ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE INITIAL STUDY WERE 20 MIXTURES OF GRASSES AND LEGUMES AND MORE THAN 150 GROUND COVER SELECTIONS. FOUR YEARS AFTER ESTABLISHMENT, FIVE SEEDING MIXTURES AND TEN GROUND COVERS ARE PROVIDING LOW MAINTENANCE, EROSION RESISTANT COVERS. /AUTHOR/

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1965/93/93-004.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
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• Authors:
  • Thornton, Robert B
• Publication Date: 1965

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: pp 31-37
• Monograph Title: Roadside development
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 93
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Businesses; Economic development; Erosion control; Experiments; Ground cover; Landscape design; Maintenance; Planning; Planting; Plants; Slopes; Subsoil
• Old TRIS Terms: Plant cover; Vegetation selection
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00204576
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 12 1994 12:00AM