Management Guidelines for Riparian Forests 



Table G-3: Soil erodibility based on parent material type (Cline and others 1981) 



Geologic Erosion Factor 



Table G-4: Evaluation of proposed guides (Table G-3) on 48 sites 



Number of Sites 



Formula application worked well 20 



Topographic breaks worked better than formula 20 



Minimum of 25 feet judged inadequate 8 



Adjacent wetlands was controlling criteria 5 



Dry Draws — SMZ not critical 3 



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