Environmental Engineering Reference
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Figure 4.5
Erosion rills developing on a slope on a recently rehabilitated mine site. (Photograph by David Tongway.)
(a)
(b)
Figure 4.6
Land managers measuring perennial vegetation cover in an arid environment near Broken Hill in far western
New South Wales in Australia: (a) a disturbed site with large patches of bare soil, where the restoration treatment was
to simply remove domestic livestock and (b) a nearby reference site with high protective cover species. (Photographs by
David Tongway.)
