CONTENTS 



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1. INTRODUCTION 1 



2. EXPERIMENTAL SITES 1 



3. STUDY DESCRIPTION 2 



4. VEGETATION 6 



5. SUSPENSION AND RESUMPTION OF EXPERIMENTS 8 



6. CONCLUSIONS 8 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

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1. Aerial Photograph of San Luis Pass 3 



2. Aerial Photograph of Packery Channel, Newport Pass, and 



Corpus Christi Pass 4 



3. Wind rose showing sand-moving winds in the four study areas 5 



4. Sand-fence installations and resulting dunes, San Luis Pass 10 



5. Sand accumulation at San Luis Pass 11 



6. Sand-fence installations and resulting dunes at 



Packery Channel 12 



7. Sand accumulation at Station 7+00 at Packery Channel .... 13 



8. Sand accumulation at Station 13+00 at Packery Channel ... 14 



9. Sand-fence installations and resulting dunes at Newport Pass 15 



10. Sand accumulation at Station 8+00 at Newport Pass 16 



11. Sand accumulation at Station 14+00 at Newport Pass 17 



12. Car-body and sand-fence installation at Corpus Christi Pass 18 



13. Sand accumulation at Station 3+60 at Corpus Christi Pass . . 19 



14. Sand-fence installation at Corpus Christi Pass 20 



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