Landforming presents the first comprehensive and practical guidebook to the innovative techniques of landform grading and revegetation.

Landforming features:

• The aesthetic and ecological benefits of landform grading and revegetation
• Analyses that demonstrate the stability of landform designed slopes
• Real-world design/construction procedures
• Construction in both upland slope areas and in stream corridors
• Analytical procedures and design aids to assist implementation
• Well documented and comprehensive case studies of actual projects

Contents

1. Introduction to Landform Grading and Revegetation

• Form and Function in Nature
• Human Impact on Landforms
• Historical Development
• Objectives and Challenges

2. Surficial Erosion and Mass Wasting of Slopes

• Nature of Surficial Erosion
• Principal Determinants of Erosion
• Types of Water Erosion
• Soil Loss Predictions
• Erosion Control Principles
• Nature of Mass Wasting
• Slope Stability Predictions
• Control of Mass Wasting
• Slope-Stability and Channel-Erosion Thresholds

3. Influence of Vegetation on Hillside Stability

• Influence on Surficial Erosion
• Influence on Mass Stability
• Root Morphology and Strength
• Root and Fiber Soil Reinforcement
• Guidelines for Maximizing Benefits of Vegetation

4. Influence of Topography on Slope Stability and Hydrology

• Modeling Approaches and Assumptions
• Conceptual Modeling
• Physical-Mathematical Models
• Laboratory and Field Tests
• Role of Drainage Networks and Drainage Densities

5. Geomorphic Evolution of Slopes

• Role of Geologic Processes
• Geomorphology
• Slope Attributes and Characteristics
• Approaches to Slope Evolution Prediction
• Anthropogenic Slopes and Landforms
• Slope Evolution and Long-Term Stability
• Digital Terrain Models

6. Hillside Grading Fundamentals

• Purpose of Grading
• Grading Considerations
• Elements of Hillside Grading
• Cuts and Fills
• Erosion Control During Grading
• Economics of Grading

7. Principles of Landform Grading

• The Traditional Method
• The Improved Method
• The Environmentally Responsive New Technique
• Repair and Rejuvnation Techniques for Either Man-Made or Damaged Natural Landscapes
• Surface Mining Reclamation

8. Essential Design Elements for Slope Forms and Landforms

• Natural Landscape Elements
• Basic Slope Forms
• The Rock Elements as Part of the Natural Landscape

9. Implementation of the Landform Grading Plan

• Obstacles to Implementaion
• Implementation Strategies
• Planning and Surveying Requirements
• The Grading Phase
• Fill Construction and Compaction Control
• Construction of Valley
• Slope-Drainage Devices
• Revegetation
• The Application of Water on the Slope Face Through Irrigation
• Placement of Rocks and Boulders
• Cost Considerations and Analyses

10. Public and Regulatory Response to Landform Grading

• The Development Process
• Standards and Codes
• Project-Approval Benefits of Landform Grading
• Agencies that have Adopted or Implemented Landform Grading
• Future Applications of Landform Grading

11. Landforming Projects-Watershed Restoration and Mining Reclamation

• School Girl's Glen
• Asaayi Lake Northwest Drainage- Landform Restoration
• Oil Sands Mining Reclamation, Syncrude Canada
• Performance Evaluation

12. Landforming Projects- Hillside Developments and Mass-Grading Applications

• Hollywood Hills Project
• Anaheim Hills, California
• Talega, California
• Highlights and Features of Project

Index

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