Mulching is the process of covering up trails and roads with vegetation, thereby restoring the natural look of the landscape, promoting vegetation regrowth, and protecting the land from further invasion. The following pictures show the effects of vertical mulching (burying bundles of straw or brush into the soil and allow water to seep into the earth) in 2005 at Kern County, California (Webb 388).
Before vertical mulching:
After vertical mulching:
Works Cited:
Webb, Robert H., Lynn F. Fenstermaker, Jill S. Heaton, Debra
L. Hughson, Eric V. Mcdonald, and David M. Millar, eds. The Mojave Desert: Ecosystem Processes and Sustainability. Reno,
Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2009. Print.
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