Originally Posted by SetterGuy
I am concerned that it will reduce runoff too much. When we have a good hard rain the pond comes back fast. I get good runoff from the timber, and it doesn’t look like too much dirt coming in with it.
Conventional wisdom shows grassland having more runoff than timber, less than rowcrops.

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