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This report was prepared under Bureau of Land Management Contract No. YA558-CT4-0011 to review the literature on incised channels, including gullies.

Differences in annual runoff and soil loss caused by livestock grazing on arid rangelands can be measured directly from large plots.

This technical note provides resource specialists with tools for estimating soil properties required by many of the state-of-the-art hydrology, erosion, and sediment yield procedures and computer m

Large areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin are underlain by saline geologic formations which contribute to the dissolved load or salinity of the Colorado River.

This technical note describes the Soil Landscape Analysis Project (SLAP) methodology for making Order 3 soil surveys and for supplementing and updating existing soil surveys.

In the last 10 years, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has reclaimed a number of abandoned mine land (AML) sites, often by removing mine, mill, and smelter wastes and taking them to a repository

Soil erosion monitoring and assessment are important tools in determining impacts from land management practices.

The climactic eruption of Mount Mazama approximately 7,600 years ago distributed airfall tuff throughout what is now eastern and offshore Oregon.

In arid and semi-arid lands throughout the world, vegetation cover is often sparse or absent.

The purpose of this publication is to further the understanding and appreciation of riparian-wetland soils.