TM 5-830-3/AFM 88-17, Chap. 3
Figure B-2. Types of moving sand dunes
SECTION II CONTROL METHODS
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Introduction
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Fencing
There are-many methods of sand control, with pertain
This method of control employs flexible, portable
advantages and disadvantage in each method. The
inexpensive fences to destroy. the symmetry of a dune
methods described below for the stabilization and/or
formation. The fence need not be a solid surface and
destruction of windborne sand Dunes are the most
may -even have 50 percent openings as in snow fencing.
effective. These methods may be used singularly or in
Any material such as wood slats, slender poles, stalks,
combination.
or perforated plastic sheets bound together in any
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