disposed in a randomly intertwined relationship in a typical embodiment wood fibers 20 of the excelsior or wood wool variety are preferably used and collectively define therebetween a plurality of relatively small interstitial regions through which ground vegetation 22 for example grass may upwardly grow from the sloping earth portion 12 protectively covered by erosion control blankets 14 each mat 18 has a substantially flat bottom surface 24 positionable directly against the sloping earth portion 12 fig2 illustrates a flow diagram of a packing and handling for an erosion control blanket fig3 is a front elevation view of a shipping container containing a bundle of rolled erosion control blankets 14 according to fig2 referring now to fig2 and 3 a block diagram illustrates by way of example only the various steps of one embodiment of a packing process 300 which may be followed while preparing erosion control blankets 14 for shipment in accordance with the present invention fig3 illustrates a shipping container 300 is provided having an interior height 304 and an interior width 302 allowing bundles 306 to be inserted therein in a typical embodiment shipping container 300 may be any type of vessel suitable for shipping over land air or water but is preferably an enclosed van style trailer interior height 304 and interior width 302 are generally an integer multiple of a number u201c x u201d and u201c y u201d respectively referring specifically now to fig2 the packing process 200 comprises the following steps assembling erosion control blanket 14 for purposes of packing the shipment in step 202 providing a shipping container 300 in step 204 rolling each of the erosion control blanket 14 into a generally cylindrical shape in step 206 grouping the rolled erosion control blanket 14.