CONTENTS—Continued 



h. Fertilization , . . , . . , . 69 



c. Erosion and Deposition ,....,. 72 



d. Species 73 



(1) Smooth Cordgrass 73 



(2) Saltmeadow Cordgrass 75 



(3) Pacific Cordgrass 76 



C4) Black Needle Rush ..... 77 



(5) Sedge 78 



(6) Tufted Hair Grass 78 



(7) Arrowgrass 79 



(8) Big Cordgrass 79 



(9) Saltgrass 79 



(10) Common Reed 79 



(11) Mangroves 80 



4. Marsh Maturation 81 



5. Cost 83 



6. Permits 84 



V SUMMARY 84 



LITERATURE CITED 89 



TABLES 



1 A summary of regional plant adaptations 86 



2 Planting summary by regions 87 



FIGURES 



1 Typical intertidal low marsh of smooth cordgrass 13 



2 High marsh of black needle rush and short form of smooth 



cordgrass 14 



3 Common Reed 16 



4 Georgia low marsh food web 18 



5 Shoreline sloped and planted with smooth cordgrass and 



saltmeadow cordgrass 20 



6 Erosion under control on planted slope and erosion continuing 



on unplanted slope 21 



7 Planted slope stabilized and unplanted continuing to erode. ... 22 



8 Erosion scarp along edge of smooth cordgrass-needle rush marsh 



growing on peat 23 



9 Atlantic and gulf coasts cordgrasses 31 



10 Narrow band of short form of smooth cordgrass with tall form 



on the downslope side and saltmeadow cordgrass mixed with 



sea oxeye, upslope 33 



11 Black needle rush surrounded by the short form of smooth 



cordgrass 35 



