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Technical Report 
Predicting rainfall erosion losses: A guide to conservation planning 
Wischmeier, WH; Smith, DD 
1978 
U.S. Department of Agriculture 
Washington, DC 
Agriculture Handbook No. 537 
Scientific planning for soil and water conservation requires knowledge of the relations between those factors that cause loss of soil and water and those that help to reduce such losses. The soil loss prediction procedure presented in this handbook provides specific guidelines which are needed for selecting the control practices best suited to the particular needs of each site. The procedure is founded on an empirical soil loss equation that is believed to be applicable wherever numerical values of it factors are available. 
TROPAG; Miscellaneous subjects; Climatology; Land Conservation and Management; USA (Mainland)