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Straw Roads
3/13/06

This is a picture of some of the 1.5 miles of farm roads that our staff covered with straw early in the rainy season.  Left alone these bare farm roads become super-highways for water and eroding soils.  The picture below shows one of the gullies formed by this kind of runoff. 

 

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