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Publications Relating to Saline Sites

Updated 05/08/2013

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Publications Types
Technical Notes
Plant Fact Sheets
Plant Guides
Information Brochures and Flyers
Miscellaneous Technical Article

Technical Notes

Plant Materials for Salt-Affected Sites in the Northern Great Plains. (PDF; 164 KB) Tober, D., W. Duckwitz, and S. Sieler. 2007. USDA, NRCS, Bismarck, ND. March 2007. 8p. (ID# 7094)

Technical Note: An Evaluation of Salt Brushes (atriplex spp.) for Restoration of Alkaline and Saline Sites in South Texas. (PDF; 48 KB) USDA-NRCS Kika de la Garza Plant Materials Center. 1998. USDA-NRCS Kika de la Garza Plant Materials Center, Kingsville, TX. Vol.1(1), Aug. 1998. 10p. (ID# 1457)

Plants for Saline to Sodic Conditions. (PDF; 134k) Ogle, Dan, Loren St John. 2009. USDA NRCS, Boise, Idaho. TN 9A; February 2010 - revision. 12p. (ID# 9328)

Plant Materials Salinity Trials. (PDF; 552k) Ogle, Dan, Dana Truman, Brett Prevedel, Tony Beals. 2009. USDA NRCS, Boise, Idaho. TN 9B; October 2009. 12p. (ID# 9393)

Technical Note 9: Plants for Saline to Sodic Soil Conditions. (PDF; 122 KB) Ogle, D.G., M. Majerus, and L. St. John. 2004. USDA-NRCS, Boise, Idaho. Idaho Plant Materials Technical Note No. 9; February 2004. 12p. (ID# 5465)

Plant Materials and Techniques for Brine Site Reclamation. (PDF; 64 KB) Conway, T. 2001. USDA-NRCS, Salina, KS. KS-TN26; Feb. 2001. 6p. (ID# 446)

Technical Note 69: Review of poster "Biomass production and nutritional value of salt-tolerant forages irrigated with saline-sodic drainage water: field and greenhouse studies". (PDF; 322 KB) Benes, S., H. Suyama, P. Robinson, G. Getachew, C. Grieve, and S. Grattan. 2004. publication by: California State University, Fresno, Lockeford, CA. CA-69. 8p. (ID# 5803)

Plant Fact Sheets

Manystem Wildrye Plant Fact Sheet. (PDF; 120K) Young-Mathews, A. and S. Winslow. 2010. Lockeford Plant Materials Center, California and Bridger Plant Materials Center, Montana, Davis, CA. 9/8/10. 2p. (ID# 9972)

Plant Fact Sheet Texas Dropseed. (PDF; 104 KB) Brandon Carr. 2009. USDA/NRCS James E. "Bud" Smith Plant Materials Center, Knox City, TX. September 8, 2009. 2p. (ID# 9183)

Plant Fact Sheet: Desert Saltbush. (PDF; 517 KB) Garner, E.R. 2003. USDA-NRCS Tucson Plant Materials Center, 2p. (ID# 5106)

Plant Fact Sheet: Gulf Cordgrass. (PDF; 108 KB) Maher, S. and J. Lloyd-Reilley. 2003. USDA-NRCS Kika de la Garza Plant Materials Center, Kingsville, TX. September, 2003. 2p. (ID# 5082)

Plant Guides

Manystem Wildrye Plant Guide. (PDF; 409K) Young-Mathews, A. and S. Winslow. 2010. Lockeford Plant Materials Center, CA and Bridger Plant Materials Center, MT, Davis, CA. 9/8/10. 4p. (ID# 9966)

Information Brochures and Flyers

Alkali sacaton. (PDF; 143 KB) Hershdorfer, M. and R. Garner. 2007. Tucson PMC, Tucson, Arizona. 2006. 1p. (ID# 7422)

Miscellaneous Technical Article

Investigation and Collection of Plant Materials from Saline Sites in West-Central Texas. (PDF; 230K) Joel Douglas, Dennis Neffendorf, Emil Horvath, Gary Rea. 2010. USDA-NRCS Fort Worth technology support center. TXPMC, Fort Worth ,Texas. March,2010. 5p. (ID# 9494)