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Protect Wildlife <br />• Avoid photodegradable erosion control <br />materials where possible. <br />• Use only biodegradable materials <br />(typically made from natural fibers), <br />preferably those that will biodegrade under <br />a variety of conditions. <br />• Wildlife friendly erosion control material <br />costs are often similar to conventional <br />plastic netting. <br />A small vole that was strangled and killed by plastic erosion control <br />material with welded and square mesh. Photo taken in southern <br />Minnesota and provided courtesy of Tom lessen. <br />Minnesota <br />DEPARTMENT OF <br />NATURAL RESOURCES <br />R7ME(.1 <br />WFEC Fact -sheet — MN DNR 2013 (acc.) <br />Plains Gartersnake trapped and killed by welded -plastic square <br />erosion control mesh placed along a newly installed cement culvert <br />in southern Minnesota. ©MN DNR, Carol Hall <br />Literature Referenced <br />Barton, C. and K. Kinkead. 2005. Do erosion control and <br />snakes mesh? Soil and Water Conservation Society <br />60:33A-35A. <br />Derraik, J.G.B. 2002. The pollution of the marine <br />environment by plastic debris: a aeview. Marine <br />Pollution Bulletin 44:842-852. <br />Fuller-Perrine, L.D., and M.E. Tobin. 1993. A method <br />for applying and removing bird -exclusion netting in <br />commercial vineyards. Wildlife Society Bulletin <br />21:47-51. <br />Johnson, S.W. 1990. Distribution, abundance, and <br />source of entanglement debris and other plastics on <br />Alaskan beaches, 1982-1988. Proceedings of the <br />Second International Conference on Marine Debris <br />331-348. <br />Kapfer, J. M., and R. A. Paloski. 2011. On the threat to <br />snakes of mesh deployed for erosion control and <br />wildlife exclusion. Herpetological Conservation and <br />Biology 6:1-9. <br />