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dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Wm. W.
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-03T21:26:21Z
dc.date.available2013-12-03T21:26:21Z
dc.date.issued1976-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/2669
dc.descriptionP R E P A R E D F O R T H E UNITED STATES ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION NEVADA OPERATIONS OFFICE Under Contract No AT(29-2)-20/Purchase Order DB-845A With Holmes and N arver, Inc.en_US
dc.description.abstractRevegetation studies commenced by the Alaskan Agricultural Experiment Station in 1970 on Amchitka Island culminated in 1973 with the seeding of disturbed areas associated with the nuclear testing program. Cool temperatures coupled with strong winds and a high incidence of fog and cloud cover impose a tundra aspect on Amchitka, one of Alaska's most southerly land areas. Natural revegetation is undependable for the near term. Twenty-two perennial grasses, two clovers, and four annual grasses were tested on different soil types at low to medium-high (480 ft) elevation sites. At higher elevations severe winds and frost action maintain a barren-ground aspect. Relatively humic, acidic sites were the least favorable, a test site gravel pad the most favorable. Cultivars of red fescue--Boreal, Pennlawn, and Highlight chewings— and an experimental entry of Bering hairgrass, taxa conspecific with species found on the island, and Engmo timothy performed the best. Kentucky bluegrasses and reed canarygrass grew moderately well. Wheatgrasses, wildrye, bromegrass, creeping foxtail, grandis alkaligrass, redtop bentgrass, and white and alsike clover performed unsatisfactorily at some or all of the sites. The revegetation seeding mix included Boreal red fescue, Highlight chewings fescue, Bering hairgrass, and annual ryegrass. Fertilization was necessary to establish plants on most sites. Plants responded erratically to added N on relatively humic, acidic soils, but more normally on gravelly and subsoil sites. Raising the P ration improved fertilizer response. Fertilization greatly enhanced growth on a disturbed site undergoing natural revegetation.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontentsIntroduction -- Preliminary Investigations -- Procedures and Site Descriptions: Planting Sites, Planting Trials, Fertilizer Trial on Bare Area -- Results and Discussion: 1971 Performance, 1972 and 1973 Performance of Row Plantings, Ecotypic Differences, Broadcast Plots at Sites 1-4, Broadcast Plots at Galion Pit, Fertilizer Trial on Bare Area, Reproductive Fertility of Planted Materials, Recommendations for Revegetation -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Literature Citeden_US
dc.publisherAgricultural Experiment Station, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaskaen_US
dc.titleREVEGETATION RESEARCH ON AMCHITKA ISLAND, A MARITIME TUNDRA LOCATION IN ALASKA: Final Reporten_US
dc.title.alternativeNVO-172en_US
dc.typeReporten_US
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