Environmental effects of solar thermal power systems: experiments on restoration of disturbed desert land by means of revegetation. Progress report for FY 1981

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5748500

Romney, E M; Hunter, R B; Wallace, A

Work was directed toward the development of cost-effective methods of restoring native vegetation on disturbed Mojave Desert land. Emphasis has been placed upon improving techniques for producing transplanting stocks of native shrub species, investigating different ways to protect and encourage regrowth from crown and root sprouting and new seedling establishment, developing improved transplanting methods, and searching for better understanding of the soil moisture requirements of new plant seedlings and transplanted shrubs. The overall project goal of vegetation management and recovery at sites disturbed for solar thermal power system installations was to develop methods of restoring native vegetation on disturbed Mojave Desert land, within a two or three year time frame, in order to provide the developers with a useful tool to help control disturbed site erosion and fugitive dust problems.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA). Lab. of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00012
• OSTI ID: 5748500
• Report Number(s): UCLA-12/1312; ON: DE82006231
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140400* -- Solar Energy-- Environmental Aspects
510500 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ARID LANDS
COST
DATA
DESERTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GRASS
INFORMATION
LAND RECLAMATION
NUMERICAL DATA
PLANTS
POWER PLANTS
PREFERRED SPECIES
RECOMMENDATIONS
REVEGETATION
SHRUBS
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TREES