##  [Making Sites Rough and Loose: A Soil Adjustment Technique](/resource/making-sites-rough-and-loose-soil-adjustment-technique) 

Organization

[NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (NAIT CBR)](/organization/nait-centre-boreal-research-nait-cbr)

 

 

Project

[Forest Reclamation and Boreal Reforestation](/project/forest-reclamation-and-boreal-reforestation)

 

Resource Type

[Technical guide](/taxonomy/term/35)

 

 

Author(s)

David Polster

 

 

Original Authors

David Polster

 

 

Resource Date:

2013

 

Page Length

3

 

 

Rough and loose surface treatments provide an effective way to control erosion and create conditions that promote the revegetation of the site. By creating topographic heterogeneity the rough and loose surface configurations provides increased diversity of habitats therefore improves ecological resilience. This brief document shows how sites can be made rough and loose to gain these ecosystem benefits and initiate natural successional processes.

View more technical notes by NAIT Centre for Boreal Research [here.](https://www.nait.ca/industry/applied-research/centre-for-boreal-research/resources/technical-notes)