Planes traveling over the Angora fire burn area this week will signal the start of USDA Forest Service aerial hydromulch operations to control erosion and prevent runoff. The project begins today.

After almost two weeks, 3,238 flights made by six small airplanes and one large helicopter, and one light rain over the weekend, the hydromulching of U.S. Forest Service lands affected by July’s Gap ...

Forests blackened by the Angora fire were lent a shade of green this week, as airplanes began the aerial hydromulching of some of the steepest slopes burned by the Angora fire. Hydromulching includes ...

As several fixed-wing aircraft lifted off the runway at the Santa Barbara Airport on Tuesday, county efforts began to hydromulch 1,050 acres affected by the Jesusita Fire. The mulch is applied to ...

Agricultural engineers have developed the erosion control industry's first cotton hydromulch "spray-on blanket." Hydromulch is the bright-green mulch used in spray-on slurries that cover bare lands at ...

Hydromulch is a wet mixture of 40 percent shredded wood and 60 percent paper with a guar gum-based tackifier, a sticky substance that helps the mulch material cling to hillsides and steep slopes. Guar ...

Boulder County is getting ready to spray hydromulch on properties burned in the Marshall Fire. The goal is to help prevent toxic ash and dust from getting airborne.