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Vegetative Recovery Of Military Vehicle Impacts At Fort Lewis, Wa, Katie Jean Simmons
Vegetative Recovery Of Military Vehicle Impacts At Fort Lewis, Wa, Katie Jean Simmons
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Vehicles driven off-road damage the soil and vegetation on the terrain, which can cause soil erosion and degradation of the landscape. This type of damage occurs on military installations due to training. Military training lands must be managed in an attempt to minimize the overall impacts of training on the terrain. The Army Training and Testing Area Carrying Capacity (ATTACC) is a model used by the U.S. Army to manage their training lands. Methods of determining the impacts produced by a vehicle and subsequent vegetative recovery have been used at Fort Lewis, WA for the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV). The …