Walker Trial
Plants and Plots
Revegetation Trial Plants
(Grasses)
Plant Species(trt)
Variety
Seeding rate(lbs/acre PLS
1) Indian ricegrass
(Achnatherum hymenoides)
Nezpar/Rimrock
8
2) Basin wildrye
(Leymus cinereus)
Magnar
12
3) Beardless wheatgrass
(Pseudoroegneria spicata)
Whitmar
8
4) Western wheatgrass
(Pascopyrum smithii)
Arriba/Rosanna
12
5) Inland saltgrass
(Distichlis spicata)
VNS
7
6) Control
no seed
-
Revegetaion Trial Plants
(Shrubs)
1) 4- wing salt bush
(Atreplex canescens)
2) Shadscale
(Atreplex confertifolia)
3)
Rubber Rabbitbrush
(Ericameria nauseos ssp. nauseosa)
4) Black greasewood
(Sarcobatus vermiculatus)
Warm Season Grasses for Bio-fuel
Plant species(trts)
Variety
Seeding rate(lbs/ac PLS)
Switchgrass
(Panicum virgatum)
Nebraska 28
7
Sand bluestem
(Andropogon hallii)
Woodward
12
Indiangrass
(Sorghastrum nutans)
Cheyenne
7
Prarie Sandreed
(Calamovilfa longifolia)
Goshen
7
Bluestem (old world)
WW Iron Master
(Bothrichloa ischaemum)
8
Cool Season Grasses for Bio-Fuel
Plant species(trts)
Variety
Seeding rate(lbs/ac PLS)
Tall wheatgrass
(Elytrigia elongata)
Alkar
15
Basin wildrye
(Leymus cinereus)
Trailhead
10
Mammoth wildrye
(Leymus racemosus)
Volga
12
Tall fescue
(Festuca arundinacea)
Fawn
15
Alternative Annual Grains
Plant species(trts)
Variety
Seeding rate(lbs/acPLS)
Tef
(Erograstis tef)
Dessie
2
Tef
(Erograstis tef)
White seeded
2
Buckwheat
(Fagopyrum esculentum)
Mancan
50-55
Amaranth
(Amaranth cruentus)
Plainsman
1-2
Pearl millet
(Pennisetum glaucum)
Tifgrain 102
3
Alfalfa (control)
VNS
20
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)
100%
75%
50%
50%
100%
75%
50%
100%
75%
15
15
15
2
11
11
15
13
10
2
6
6
5
4
13
4
15
8
14
14
14
10
6
3
11
4
13
9
9
9
11
15
9
1
14
4
6
1
5
15
3
12
8
10
5
13
13
13
7
5
4
9
11
3
11
11
11
12
13
10
13
5
11
10
10
10
9
2
1
14
8
12
1
4
4
13
10
14
5
9
15
3
3
2
8
12
5
6
2
14
4
2
3
14
9
2
7
3
7
12
12
12
3
8
15
10
1
9
7
7
7
6
1
8
3
7
1
5
5
1
4
7
7
2
12
2
8
8
8
1
14
6
12
6
6
I
II
III
Revegetation experimental plot layout
X 30’ = 540’ X 180’ = 2.23 ac )
Valley Vista sites)
25%
(
= Planted Fall 2007 at Wildlife, 5-C,
0%
1 N
R
4
5
6
5
4
3
5
6
6
3
1
4
N
R
A
R
4
2
2
I
R
A
(36 plots @ 90’
25%
R
A
0%
5
4
3
1
5
2
5
3
2
6
3
2
1
1
6
0%
25%
R
N
3
II
A
R
N
R
1
4
R
N
R
A
2
6
III
R
A
R
N