Table 11. Experimental planting sites on Padre Island.— Continued 



Description 



Planting 



Comments 



South Padre— Continued 



Pass No. 2 



Pass No. 3 



Pass No. 4 



North Section Fence. 

 South 400-foot beach. 



North Section Fence. 



North 400-foot sea oats (beach). 



Feb. 1969 



Mar. 1971 



Feb. 1973 



Mar. 1971 



May 1972 



Nov. 1972 



to 

 Sept. 1973 



Feb. 1973 



Mar. 1971 

 Dec. 1971 



Feb. 1973 



Feb. 1971 



Feb. 1969 

 Mar. 1971 



1,100-foot planting of saltmeadow cordgrass 

 buried by sand of storm surge; total failure. 

 Replanted with cordgrass following month. 



2-foot sand-fence dune (erected spring 1970) 

 planted with bitter panicum. Mostly successful, 

 but some recent washed-out areas in center. 



400-foot section leeward of Highway Department 

 picket sand fence planted with sea oats, bitter 

 panicum, shoredune panicum. Mostly failure due 

 to high soil salinity and burial by sand drifts. 



Shoredune panicum planted in furrows on original 

 elevation. Planting failure due to high salinity. 



2-foot sand-fence dune (400-foot-long fence 

 erected November 1971) planted with sea oats. 

 Seeds wind-excavated. Survival: none. 



Monthly plantings of sea oats and bitter panicum. 

 Survival: irregular; mostly good. 



400-foot section leeward of Highway Department 

 picket sand fence planted with sea oats, bitter 

 panicum, shoredune panicum. Mostly failure due 

 to high soil salinity and burial by sand drifts. 



Planted on original elevation with sea oats and 

 bitter panicum. Planting failed due to high salinity. 



2-foot sand-fence dune (400-foot-long fence 

 erected November 1971) planted to bitter 

 panicum. Planting mostly washed out by surge and 

 buried by drifting sand. 



Replanted after fence filled with sand with bitter 

 panicum and sea oats. Percent survival: bitter 

 panicum, 48; sea oats, 22. 



Planted with bitter panicum. Failure due to surge. 



Survival: 1 percent due to surge. 



Leveled and replanted with sea oats and bitter 

 panicum. Failure due to surge. 



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