A resolution was passed on July 27th 1974, allotting a large sum of money to stop the erosion of Iceland and for reclamation of what had been lost already.

The Icelandic flora includes about 440 species of vascular plants of mixed origin, but mostly European. There is an abundance of grass and moss varieties, which tend to flourish much better here than in similar regions of northern Scandinavia and Greenland.

The most common kinds of vegetation are various types of low-growing shrubs, especially heather, crowberry, bearberry, willow and dwarf birch. Some of the most striking features in the landscape, particularly so in the southwest, are the lichens and mosses on the lava fields.

All over the country, including the inhabited lowlands, there are vast areas of sandy wastelands, bare rock, stony deserts and lavafields.