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Web image: Cross wind trap strips (vegetated areas) applied in a field between cross wind ridges to trap airborne soil particlesCross Wind Trap Strips

Practice Code: 589C
Reporting Unit: Acre (Ac.)

Cross wind trap strips consist of herbaceous cover resistant to wind erosion established in one or more strips across the prevailing wind erosion direction

Purposes and Benefits

  • Reduces soil erosion

  • Reduces sediment deposition

  • Improves soil health

  • Improves crop yields

  • Provides wildlife habitat

Conservation Practice Support Documents

Support Documents for this conservation practice are available for download from an abbreviated version of Section IV of the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG).

Web link image: Field Office Technical GuideAll support documents associated with this and other conservation practices are available at the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide Web site.

 

Related Conservation Practices

This practice is commonly used in a Conservation Management System with practices such as:

Contour Farming (330)
Cross Wind Ridges (588)
Stripcropping (585)

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