Welcome to the official website of the City of Martinsburg, West Virginia! The City of Martinsburg, recognized as the fastest growing City in the State is known as the Gateway to the Shenandoah Valley.. Located in the heart of the Eastern Panhandle, the City serves as the county seat to Berkeley County.
Distichlis spicata is a species of grass known by several common names, including seashore saltgrass, inland saltgrass, and desert saltgrass.This grass is native to the Americas, where it is widespread. It can be found on other continents as well, where it is naturalized.It is extremely salt tolerant.he total dry matter yields were 9081 kg/ha with a total protein production of 1300 kg/ha. Saltgrass is grazed by both cattle and horses and it has a forage value of fair to good because it remains green when most other grasses are dry during the drought periods and it is resistant to grazing and trampling.
Dryland Salinity is the process that degrades land due to an increase in soil salt concentration. Being in excess of normal soil salt concentrations makes it harder for plants to take water from the soil and eventually they die from dehydration, leaving patches of soil with no ground cover. Clearing deep-rooted perennial native vegetation and replacing it with shallow rooted annual plants. 2  The shallow roots are no longer able to utilise the excess runoff, and it now seeps past the roots zone to enter the groundwater system.