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Bio-Structural Erosion Control: Incorporating Vegetation in Engineering Designs to Protect Puget Sound Shorelines

The conventional engineering approach to slope stabilization and erosion control usually relies solely on structural components. Vegetation is rarely included in engineering designs, though occasionally it is treated as incidental landscaping. Though the benefits of vegetation's role in erosion control are poorly understood within the engineering community; the value of vegetation in controlling erosion and reducing shallow mass wasting is well documented


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Author(s): Elliott Menashe