Walker Trial Walker Trial Plants and PlotsPlants and Plots

Revegetation Trial Plants Revegetation Trial Plants (Grasses)(Grasses)

Plant Species(trt) Variety Seeding rate(lbs/acre PLS 1) Indian ricegrass Nezpar/Rimrock 8 (Achnatherum hymenoides) 2) Basin wildrye Magnar 12 (Leymus cinereus) 3) Beardless wheatgrass Whitmar 8 (Pseudoroegneria spicata) 4) Western wheatgrass Arriba/Rosanna 12 (Pascopyrum smithii) 5) Inland saltgrass VNS 7 (Distichlis spicata) 6) Control no seed -

1) 4- wing salt bush (Atreplex canescens)

2) Shadscale (Atreplex confertifolia)

3) Rubber Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseos ssp. nauseosa)

4) Black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus)

Revegetaion Trial Plants Revegetaion Trial Plants (Shrubs)(Shrubs)

Plant species(trts) Variety Seeding rate(lbs/ac PLS) Switchgrass Nebraska 28 7 (Panicum virgatum) Sand bluestem Woodward 12 (Andropogon hallii) Indiangrass Cheyenne 7 (Sorghastrum nutans) Prarie Sandreed Goshen 7 (Calamovilfa longifolia) Bluestem (old world) WW Iron Master 8 (Bothrichloa ischaemum)

Warm Season Grasses for Bio-fuel

Cool Season Grasses for Bio-FuelCool Season Grasses for Bio-Fuel

Plant species(trts) Variety Seeding rate(lbs/ac PLS) Tall wheatgrass Alkar 15 (Elytrigia elongata) Basin wildrye Trailhead 10 (Leymus cinereus) Mammoth wildrye Volga 12 (Leymus racemosus) Tall fescue Fawn 15 (Festuca arundinacea)

Plant species(trts) Variety Seeding rate(lbs/acPLS) Tef Dessie 2 (Erograstis tef) Tef White seeded 2 (Erograstis tef) Buckwheat Mancan 50-55 (Fagopyrum esculentum) Amaranth Plainsman 1-2 (Amaranth cruentus) Pearl millet Tifgrain 102 3 (Pennisetum glaucum) Alfalfa (control) VNS 20

Alternative Annual Grains

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5 4 13

10 6 3

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15 3 12

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Bio-mass/Alternative crop experimental plot layout. (135 plots @ 24’X 30’= 270’ x 360’= 2.23 ac)( = Planted Fall 2007 at Wildlife, 5-C, Valley Vista sites)

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Revegetation experimental plot layout (36 plots @ 90’

X 30’ = 540’ X 180’ = 2.23 ac ) ( = Planted Fall 2007 at Wildlife, 5-C, Valley Vista sites)

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