Nontidal Wetlands
Nontidal Wetlands
Kathleen Sayce
Columbia Coast Plants
Local freshwater wetlands are diverse and abundant throughout the Columbia Coast. These habitats include fens, which are complexes of swales and dunes with a variety of wetlands in the swales, swamps, shrublands, marshes, sphagnum, seasonal wetlands, wet prairies, riparian habitats, seeps and springs and wet rock slopes. A few true bogs with isolated hydrology can also be found on upland sites. Though local usuage calls both sphagnum marshes and cranberry farms "bogs," neither wetland is isolated from groundwater or a true bog in the hydrological sense.
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