Sentence examples for hold the soil from inspiring English sources

Both species root easily and hold the soil, spreading quickly to fill problem areas.

Its roots leach heavy metals from the soil, hold the soil together and draw water closer to the surface.

In these areas, it is best to use plants with a spreading root system so they can hold the soil together.

Without trees, even moderate rain brings a deluge of soil and rock down on its towns; without trees, there is nothing to hold the soil together for agriculture.

The trees were killed by an infestation of beetles in recent years and no longer hold the soil as they once did, raising erosion concerns.

I researched varieties of bamboo to hold the soil in place before the next rain hit, and I prayed for a long dry season.

The problem is, it was those ­forests, those tree roots, that held the soil together.

Park officials were prepared for erosion problems after the fire burned grass and small plants holding the soil in place, and heavy rains washed away roads and the soil.

The network of roots would also do a better job of holding the soil together against erosion than plain grass, and the result might be a sustainable ecology instead of a monotonous grassy hill that required continuous lawn care.

Near the downstream toe, the gradient of the pore water pressures is steep, and constraints holding the soil structure together are low; this is one area of weakness in an embankment dam.

Tim Hess, for example, a 65-year-old semi-retired rancher with 5,000 acres straddling the line's route, said that that an early map of the pipeline had it snaking diagonally across a sandy, erosion-prone part of his ranch that was planted in the 1960s and '70s with rows of scrubby trees aimed at holding the soil in place.