Soil Quality and Water Redistribution Influences on Plant Production over Low Hillslopes on Reclaimed Mined Land

Table 2

Precipitation at experimental reclamation sites near Zap and Stanton, North Dakota, USA. Annual median precipitation near the sites at Beulah ND for 29-year period was 39.2 cm.

Month	Zap			Stanton
	1978	1979	29-yr median; 1975–2003	1978	1979
	cm
April	4.4	4.5	3.4	4.2	3.2
May	5.8	2.0	5.7	5.2	2.7
June	6.4	6.1	7.5	8.8	7.2
July	7.8	11.4	6.1	6.2	7.9
August	1.5	2.3	3.0	0.9	12.3
September	4.1	3.2	3.2	8.8	2.5
April through September	29.9	29.5	28.9	34.1	35.8