PREFACE 



This report provides coastal engineers and others with comprehensive 

 information on salt marsh creation in the United States. 



This is one of a series of reports to be published to form a Coastal 

 Engineering Manual . 



The report was prepared by W.W. Woodhouse, Jr., Professor of Soil 

 Science, North Carolina State University, under CERC Contract No. 

 DACW72-76-C-0006. 



The author expresses appreciation to J.M. Carlton, C.L. Newcombe, 

 W.C. Sharp, H.J. Teas, and J.W. Webb for their helpful suggestions; to 

 S.W. Broome, J. Colosi, and E.D. Seneca for their review and comments. 



P.L. Knutson was the contract monitor of the report under the general 

 supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, Research 

 Division. 



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. 



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TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Acting Commander and Director 



