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Title "After picture" shows same area controlled by pine brush mulching and seeding to Lespedeza sericea. Before picture neg# 5442
Date March 1946
Description Photograph shows a hillside following erosion control operations at Milepost 261 in section 2E of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by Daniel W. Levandowsky in March 1946.
Location Location Name: Milepost 261
Parkway Milepost: 261.0
Latitude: 36.315978
Longitude: -81.364937
Creator Individual Daniel W. Levandowsky
Tags Ashe County (N.C.)
Erosion
Landscape
Landscape restoration
Photographs
Sheet erosion
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway