Establishing Low Growing Cool and Warm Season Grasses in a Warm Climate at Fort Bragg.

The requirement for seeding at Fort Bragg is determined by training requirements, local erosion control ordinances, climate, soils, federal regulations, and resistance to wear.  Addressing these factors is critical in meeting the installations goal of training land sustainment.  Since its inception, Fort Bragg has continually developed seeding mixes and seeding methods to meet the installation goal.  Recently, under the guidance of the Army Environmental Command (AEC) and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), LRAM established test plots to evaluate the wear tolerance and resiliency of fine fescue cultivars.   This presentation will focus on seeding methods and mixes that the Fort Bragg LRAM Program has used in the past and how it has evolved to today as well as current research being done in finding grasses that are adaptable to nutrient poor sandy soils, hot summers, torrential rain storms, and a high volume of troop traffic.