?Beat the Clock? By Greg Northcutt Recreating Natural Vegetation in a Hurry Some emergency erosion control problems provide more time than others to craft solutions. Still, the speed of responding to an emergency is a relative matter. That was the case for an emer- gency repair involving the California Department of Parks and Recreation and CALTRANS early last year near Newport Beach in the southern part of the state. In January 1995 unusually he

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