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T. REPORT NUMBER 2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 
MP 6-75 
4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 
Miscellaneous Paper 
ESTABLISHMENT OF VEGETATION FOR SHORELINE 
STABILIZATION IN GALVESTON BAY 
6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 
7. AUTHOR(s) 8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(e@ 
J.D. Dodd 
J.W. Webb 
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 
Texas A&M University 
Department of Range Science 
Texas Agricultural esa one Station 
College Park, Texas 7843 
11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 
Department of the Army 
Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-EC) 
Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 
14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME & ADDRESS(if different from Controlling Office) 
DACW72-74-C-0002 
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK 
AREA & WORK UNIT NUMBERS 
V04230 
12. REPORT DATE 
April 1975 
13. NUMBER OF PAGES 
67 
15. SECURITY CLASS. (of thia report) 
Unclassified 
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15a, 
16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of this Report) 
Approved for public release, distribution unlimited 
- DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the abstract entered in Block 20, if different from Report) 
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- KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side if necessary and identify by block number) 
Marsh Plants Soil Characteristics Shore Stabilization 
Upper Texas Coast Water Salinity Shore Protection 
Galveston Bay Transplanting Vegetation 
Erosion Wave Stilling 
- ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse side if necesaary and identify by block number) 
The objective of this study was to determine which resident species of 
plants adapted to saline conditions can be used to control shore erosion in 
bays or estuaries. 
Water salinity and soil physical and chemical characteristics were deter- 
mined at the experimental planting sites at East Bay near Galveston, Texas. 
The soil was loam or clay-loam texture and was structurally unstable and subject 
to _ wave erosion. Soil salinity varied from 2,500 to more than 12,000 parts 
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