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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1038

Tidal Wetlands of the Yaquina and Alsea River Estuaries, Oregon: Geographic Information Systems Layer Development and Recommendations for National Wetlands Inventory Revisions

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Figure A9. Photograph of Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) at the edge of a marsh along Drift Creek at prioritization site A28 in fig. 7 in the Alsea estuary, Oregon. Sitka spruce is the principal foundation species of brackish tidal swamps in Oregon. It can also be found growing on nurse logs in estuarine marshes. Photograph by Christopher Janousek, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, December 2011.

First posted May 10, 2013

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