Central Texas has a beautiful native environment that is both a blessing and a curse to developers and landscapers. When undertaking a new building project, developers must make accommodations for containing erosion in hilly areas and revegetating areas that have poor, or no, native topsoil. Over the last five years, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Department of Transportation have been developing methods to reduce erosion and revegetate highway construction projects using compost and wood mulch. Many other government entities and private developers have adopted the TxDOT specifications in their programs for erosion and revegetation of construction-disturbed areas. A blanket of compost blended with wood mulch has been proven to hold slopes and reduce erosion in vegetated areas more successfully than other methods. And since compost provides significant fertility enhancement to poor quality soils, these organic erosion control blankets grow better stands of grass than their alternatives.