PREFACE 



This report provides criteria for planting salt marsh vegetation to 

 control erosion. It is intended to update information presented in "Planting 

 Guidelines for Marsh Development and Bank Stabilization," CETA 77-3 (Knutson, 

 1977) and "Wetland Habitat Development with Dredged Material: Engineering and 

 Plant Propagation," TR DS-78-16 (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment 

 Station, 1978). The work was carried out under the coastal ecology research 

 program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 



The report was prepared by Paul L. Knutson and Margaret R. Inskeep, 

 Coastal Ecology Branch, under the general supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, 

 Coastal Ecology Branch, Research Division. Illustrations were prepared by 

 L. Martin. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



