SLM Database

Construction of earth dams to provide stock water

• Compiler: Jannie Nel
• 01/19/2011 4:22 p.m.

Silt fences together with brush packing were introduced to reduce sediment transport and restoration of gully erosion in the Potlake nature reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 02/16/2022 7:15 a.m.

Sediment retention fibre rolls (SRFR) and erosion blankets were deployed to stabilise steep slopes after vegetation cover was destroyed by fire, near the town of Knysna in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 10/15/2021 11:57 a.m.

The rehabilitation of active gully erosion by re-sloping the banks of the gully in an effort to manage the energy of the water entering the system. Bare soil is protected from erosion by covering it with erosion blankets, brush packing and the establishment of silt fences.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 01/22/2018 2:16 p.m.

The restoration of the thicket biome in the Eastern Cape is assisted by planting ‘spekboom’ (elephant bush) (Portulacaria afra), an indigenous succulent plant within contour lines/riplines on degraded hillslopes. The increased vegetation cover reduces runoff and soil loss.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 04/06/2018 11:47 a.m.

To improve infiltration and vegetation cover, by creating small pits on bare soil, which capture runoff and reduce erosion.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 02/02/2018 1:51 p.m.

Semi-circular ponds are depressions constructed in the soil to harvest water, reduce runoff, increase infiltration, break soil sealing and crusting, capture organic material and seed where sheet erosion is predominant in degraded, low gradient hillslopes. The opening of the semi-circular pond is up-slope for runoff water to flow into the …

• Compiler: Lehman Lindeque
• 07/06/2020 8:45 p.m.

Eradication of invasive species and revegetation of degraded rangelands by different treatments, including oversowing with grass seed mixture, supplementing with lime, cattle dung, and "brush packing" (laid out branches).

• Compiler: Klaus Kellner
• 01/29/2011 3:12 p.m.

The combating of Invaders to preserve water resources & the rehabilitation of the bare ground by means of brush packing to prevent soil erosion.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 01/16/2011 4:28 a.m.

Rangeland rehabilitation where we use perennial grasses to rehabilitate the footslopes in a semi-arid region on a clay loam soil

• Compiler: Franci Petra Jordaan
• 01/24/2011 8:43 a.m.