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Soil type
The same remarks that apply to soil erosion by water apply to soil erosion by wind.
The lighter soils are most at risk, and the heavier and better structured soils are
least at risk. It should be remembered that any soil if cultivated too fine is prone to
erosion by wind.
Ground cover
As for water erosion of soil, ground cover protection is very important in
preventing or at least minimising wind erosion. This may apply on a small scale by
maintaining pasture or crop cover on the soil, planting windbreaks to protect
relatively small areas or very large area grid planting of trees to lift prevailing
winds up above ground level, creating microclimate effects between the tree grids.
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