Acid and heavy metal tolerant plants for restoring plant communities in the upper Clark Fork River Basin / by Joe LeFebvre.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

LeFebvre, Joe, author.

Contributor:

United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service, issuing body.

Series:

Plant materials technical note ; no. MT-97.

Plant materials technical note ; no. MT-97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy-metal tolerant plants--Clark Fork Watershed (Mont. and Idaho).

Heavy-metal tolerant plants.

Revegetation--Clark Fork Watershed (Mont. and Idaho).

Revegetation.

Soil pollution--Clark Fork Watershed (Mont. and Idaho).

Soil pollution.

Government publications.

Clark Fork Watershed (Mont. and Idaho).

United States--Clark Fork Watershed.

Genre:

Online resources.

technical reports.

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Bridger, Montana] : United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2014.

Summary:

Efforts to restore functional native plant communities in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin (UCFRB) began in 1995 with the Development of Acid Tolerant Cultivars (DATC) study, and continued in 2004 with the Development of Acid/Heavy Metal Tolerant Releases (DATR) phase of the project. The site conditions at the Comparative Evaluation Planting (CEP), known as Stucky Ridge, had an average soil pH of 4.5. Most soil samples contained arsenic and copper concentrations exceeding EPA's upper range for phytotoxicity. Some samples had phytotoxic levels of zinc. Both phases involved seed collection of native indigenous (local) plants found growing throughout the UCFRB. The collected seeds were increased at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Bridger Plant Materials Center (BPMC), and then planted and evaluated at various sites in the Anaconda Superfund site, often in comparison to other releases and seed sources. Although testing and selection were designed specifically for the site conditions characteristic of the Anaconda-Butte area, these seed sources may perform well in other critical areas and non-critical areas with similar climates.

Contents:

I. Plant releases for acid and heavy metal sites in the Anaconda-Butte area

II. Promising indigenous accessions that were not released

III. Non-local seed sources that performed moderately well

IV. Local and non-local species and selections tested at Anaconda that did not perform well.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).

February 2014.

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (NRCS, viewed on February 13, 2017).

OCLC:

972349766