Table 1 1. Experimental planting sites on Padre Island.— Continued 



Description 



Planting 



Comments 





South Padre- 



-Continued 



North Section Fence. 



Feb. 1969 



Survival: 2 percent, due to surge. 



Middle 400-foot sea oats (beach). 









Mar. 1971 



Leveled and replanted with sea oats and bitter 

 panicum. Failure due to surge. 



South 400-foot sea oats (beach). 



Feb. 1969 



Survival: 8 percent but sufficient for uniform dune 

 growth. Not replanted. 



North Section Fence, sand-fence dune. 



Feb. 1962 



Planted with bitter panicum. North half badly 



1,800- to 2,200-foot section. 





wind-eroded, mostly destroyed. South half 

 (mulched and irrigated). Survival: good. 



North Section Fence, sand-fence dune. 



Feb. 1973 



Planted with sea oats and bitter panicum; mulched 



0- to 400-foot, 800- to 1,800-foot, and 





and irrigated. Survival: good on foreslope; irregular 



2,000- to 2,400-foot sections. 





elsewhere. 



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