EROSION PREDICTION AS
A TOOL
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Guide management decisions
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Evaluate impact of erosion
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Inventory soil erosion
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Conservation planning
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The principal use of erosion has been a tool to guide conservation planning.
It has also been a major tool used to estimate soil loss in the USDA-NRI inventories.
Erosion prediction tools have been used for Inventories i.e. NRI since 1967.
