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How can we reduced soil erosion?

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I don't understand what type of soil erosion you mean, but the simplest form of reducing soil erosion is by planting grasses, shrubs, and trees.

The roots hold down the soil and it is not whisked away by wind or precipitation.

A good example of soil erosion is the dust bowl in mid-west North America in the 1930's. Due to over irrigation, the soil was without nutrition and there was nothing for the roots to hold onto, so the plants died. And due to the lack of plants, the wind whisked away the dust, creating huge amounts of dust storms, covering whole cities for months at a time.

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I don't understand what type of soil erosion you mean, but the simplest form of reducing soil erosion is by planting grasses, shrubs, and trees.

The roots hold down the soil and it is not whisked away by wind or precipitation.

A good example of soil erosion is the dust bowl in mid-west North America in the 1930's. Due to over irrigation, the soil was without nutrition and there was nothing for the roots to hold onto, so the plants died. And due to the lack of plants, the wind whisked away the dust, creating huge amounts of dust storms, covering whole cities for months at a time.

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