NALT

Preferred term

contour buffer strips

Topic

Contour buffer strips are strips of perennial vegetation alternated down the slope with wider cultivated strips that are farmed on the contour. Contour buffers strips are usually narrower than the cultivated strips. Vegetation in strips consists of adapted species of grasses or a mixture of grasses and legumes.

conservation buffers

contour grass strips

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

65321

Spanish

franjas de contorno

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/253089

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Created 5/15/15, last modified 11/16/15