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2. These Low-Maintenance Ground Cover Plants Will Protect ... - AOL

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   Ground cover plants offer solutions for various landscaping challenges, whether it's shaded spots where grass struggles or slopes requiring erosion control. These resilient plants thrive in poor ...

3. Snowmaking - Wikipedia

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   Snowmaking is the production of snow by forcing water and pressurized air through a " snow gun ", also known as a " snow cannon ". Snowmaking is mainly used at ski resorts to supplement natural snow. This allows ski resorts to improve the reliability of their snow cover and to extend their ski seasons from late autumn to early spring.

4. Landslide mitigation - Wikipedia

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   Landslide mitigation refers to several human-made activities on slopes with the goal of lessening the effect of landslides. Landslides can be triggered by many, sometimes concomitant causes. In addition to shallow erosion or reduction of shear strength caused by seasonal rainfall, landslides may be triggered by anthropic activities, such as ...

5. Groundcover - Wikipedia

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   Groundcover of Vinca major. Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows low over an area of ground, which protects the topsoil from erosion and drought.In an terrestrial ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer, and provides habitats and concealments for (especially fossorial) terrestrial fauna.

6. Dry ski slope - Wikipedia

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   Dry ski slope in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary Warmwell artificial ski slope in Dorset, U.K. ()A dry ski slope or artificial ski slope is a ski slope that mimics the attributes of snow using materials that are stable at room temperature, to enable people to ski, snowboard or snow tube in places where natural, snow-covered slopes are inconvenient or unavailable.

7. Geosynthetics - Wikipedia

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   Geosynthetics are synthetic products used to stabilize terrain. They are generally polymeric products used to solve civil engineering problems. This includes eight main product categories: geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geofoam, geocells and geocomposites. The polymeric nature of the products makes them ...