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FIGURES—Continued 



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2 Smooth cordgrass marsh (Virginia) 17 



3 Upper zone of saltmeadow cordgrass and lower zone of smooth 



cordgrass ( Maine ) 18 



4 Pacific cordgrass marsh (San Francisco, California) 19 



5 Lyngbye 's sedge marsh (Oregon) 20 



6 Scarp of bank on seaward edge of an eroding coastal marsh 



(San Francisco Bay, California) 21 



7 Oldest reported salt marsh planting in the United States (Virginia) ... 22 



8 Establishment period for Cedar Island, North Carolina 23 



9 Stability period for Cedar Island, North Carolina 23 



10 Erosion period for Cedar Island , North Carolina 24 



11 Clearing woody vegetation to provide direct sunlight exposure 29 



12 Planting performance versus longest fetch 32 



13 Planting performance versus average fetch 33 



14 Planting performance versus shoreline configuration 35 



15 Planting performance versus sediment grain size 36 



16 Vegetative Stabilization Site Evaluation Form 39 



17 Typical smooth cordgrass transplant or "sprig" from the wild or 



from an Inter tidal nursery 41 



18 Planting by hand 43 



19 Mechanical planting with disk-type tobacco planter 44 



20 Smooth cordgrass 49 



21 Pot-grown nursery seedlings 51 



22 Harvesting seed 52 



23 Nylon rope fence around smooth cordgrass planting 55 



24 Pacific cordgrass 57 



25 Pot-grown nursery seedlings 59 



