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TR 76-2 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



«. TITLE (end Subtitle) 



PROPAGATION AND USE OF SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA FOR 

 SHORELINE EROSION ABATEMENT 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Technical Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfs; 



W.W. Woodhouse, Jr. 

 E.D. Seneca 

 S.W. Broome 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfs) 



DACW72-70-C-0015 

 DACW72-72-C-0012 

 DACW72-74-C-0014 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



North Carolina State University 

 Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 



10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK 

 AREA 4 WORK UNIT NUMBERS 



G31530 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-EC) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Va. 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



August 1976 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



77 



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UNCLASSIFIED 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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19. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side if necessary and identify by block number) 



Erosion abatement Shoreline stabilization 

 Fertilization Spartina alterniflora 

 Marsh vegetation Transplanting 

 North Carolina coast 



20. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse side If necessary and Identify by block number) 



Experimental plantings to stabilize eroding shorelines in Bogue Sound in 

 1974 were successful. Better stands were produced on sites subject to severe 

 wave stress by reducing transplant spacing to 1.5 to 2 feet apart. Rhizomes 

 without well-developed culms attached were worthless as propagules within the 

 intertidal zone. Seeding was unsuccessful due to exposure to excessive wave 

 energy. 



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