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Fish and Flora
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Wetlands which comprise most of the Pitt Wildlife Management, can be divided into two Vegetation zones namely marshes and wet meadows. Although two zones are noted, they also intermix and intergrade depending upon local soils, elevation, degree of tidal influence and drainage. Twenty-six aquatic plant species have been recorded in the marshes including milfoil, bladderwort, watershield, coontail, elodea and yellow water lily. A number of emergent species also are located within these marsh areas including roundstem, bulrush, cattail, spikerush, arrowhead and water plantain.
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Wet meadow is a transition community between marsh and upland grass communities and the survival of the plants within these meadows is dependent on their hardiness to excessive soil moisture conditions. In extremely wet, more frequently flooded areas are found horsetail and hairy-seeded bulrush which give way to beaked and Pacific sedges and subsequently to reedgrass, reed-canary grass, manna grass and rushes. On better drained sites, hardhack is the predominant species. |
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