vegetation

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The project has been implementing several methods in three southern areas, including digging water canals and supplying electricity to pump water from the Euphrates river, preparing barren lands for vegetation.

From Barron's

Many British railways are built on clay soil that shrinks in the summer as vegetation sucks out water, and expands in the winter.

From BBC

But the province's hills still bear the scars of bygone mining practices, with bare patches of red soil visible where vegetation has struggled to regrow.

From Barron's

"If its vegetation and soil cover are not properly managed, the surface is easily subject to erosion, degrading farmland and forming sand dunes," Turkmen scientist Mukhammet Durikov told AFP.

From Barron's

The deluge-to-drought pattern worsened the conditions of the vegetation leading up to January’s fires.

From Los Angeles Times