Creating Meadows Through Road Maintenance and Construction

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Channel: PublicResourceOrg · 2010 · Education

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Creating Meadows Through Road Maintenance and Construction - USDA Forest Service 1996 - Video VH-327 - Set in New Mexico's beautiful Cibola National Forest and Zuni Mountains, this video details successful projects to preserve roadside habitat and water quality by reducing erosion and water table reduction caused by unpaved low-volume roads. The low-cost techniques include use of culvert elbows or culverts with elevated inlets in eroded stream channels at road crossings, and new Jersey traffic barriers as retaining walls.

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