 Strip tillage and chemicals break up or reduce hydrophobic soils and improve infiltration.Wood and straw mulch reduced erosion rates by 60 to 80%, contour-felled log erosion barriers 50 to 70%, hydromulch 19% and post fire seeding had little effect the first year when rainfall events were small and intensities low.In stream flood control treatments slow, delay, redistribute, or redirect water, mud and debris.