PLANTING EXPERIMENTS ON OREGON COAST 1009 



and very sturdy and stand 1,500 to the acre. The planted trees also 

 are in spots on favorable sites doing well, trees of 1914 planting show- 

 ing only a small mortality. Maritime pine apparently is adapted to the 

 local climate and does not mind the sand and the wind, but can't stand 

 much drifting or gullying about its roots. Where the surface is stable 

 and the sand-blast is not excessive, a good stocking can be secured by 

 direct seeding or planting. Lodgepole pine (shore pine), the hardiest 

 of the local coastal strip trees, would probably be just as easy to estab- 

 lish as maritime pine and might make fully as good a permanent dune 

 fixative. 



The experiments are concluded for the present, because it appears 

 that afforestation, except of the very best of the sand-waste country, 

 will not be possible until an herbaceous cover has first been established 

 to stop the sand movement. When the time does come to undertake 

 the reclaiming of this land on a large scale, it appears that sand-grass 

 planting — a very expensive operation — must precede the planting of 

 the permanent cover of trees in this locality, as has been proved neces- 

 sary elsewhere. 



