Product Comparison

QuickGRASS® PRO Excelsior Fibers Straw Fibers
Naturally seed-free May contain seeds (some may be weed seeds)
Great Lakes Aspen managed by Sustainable Forestry Programs
that contain measures to protect water quality, biodiversity,
wildlife habitat, and species at risk
Agricultural by-product with no known sustainability
management programs
Engineered curled and barbed aspen ber is designed
specically for Erosion Control, Sediment Control, and
Revegetaon Benets
Non-Engineered, Straight, Flat, and Hollow Fiber
80% of the Curled aspen bers are 6” or longer, which creates a
strong connuous interlocking matrix
Short and at bers do not interlock
Interlocking matrix allows for industry’s largest, environmentally
friendly net opening sizes
Small net openings are required so bers do not fall out of
blanket
Aspen bers expand & contract during hydraulic events causing
them to dig into soil to create a “Velcro-like” inmate
connecon with the subgrade
Straight, at, and hollow bers do not expand & contract when
weed so they lay at and/or oat during hydraulic events.
Hollow tube form can hold water away from seeds
Expanding bers conform to irregularies in terrain for opmal
seed bed protecon
Straight bers bridge over irregularies in terrain, which can
lead to erosion and loss of seed bed
Shaved aspen wood bers are clean Straw bers contain cha and are dusty
Properes of ber matrix creates “Green House Eect” for
opmum seed germinaon and establishment
Flat, hollow, and straight straw bers create lile to no “Green
House Eect”
Curled aspen excelsior Erosion Control Blankets (ECB’s) provide
a superior roughness factor (Manning’s n .030 - .035) to slow
water for inltraon
Straw bers are smooth and can cause ow velocies to
increase as opposed to dissipang velocity to provide less
severe seed bed condions
Fibers are eecve at removing Polynuclear Aromac
Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated stormwater
Straw bers ability to remove Polynuclear Aromac
Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated stormwater is not
quaned
Adjacent blankets are abued at side seams because bers
expand together
Adjacent blankets require side seam overlap, which requires
more material
Aspen Excelsior ber ECBs have documented large-scale ASTM
tesng quanfying superior performance as compared to straw
ECBs
Documented large-scale ASTM tesng has quaned straw
ECBs provide inferior performance capabilies as compared to
excelsior ECBs
Don’t Risk Using Straw Fibers for Your Landscape Projects!
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Arlington, Texas 76011
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