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Barn Island Wildlife Management Area - Sentinel Monitoring

Miller and Egler Photostations - established August 25, 1947

Photostation No.: 19

Location: Marsh south of the west leg of dike 3.

photo of Palmer Neck Marsh at photostation 9.
Photo of Palmer Neck Marsh at Photostation 9 in 1976.
Photo of Palmer Neck Marsh at Photostation 9 in 2013.
Images - top (Scylea 1947), middle (Coleman 1976) and bottom (Rozsa 2014).

1947 – "Flotsam covers a large percentage of this photostation. The vegetation beyond the flotsam is sparse. The vegetation within the depressed ellipsoid area seems to be either a forb panne community or a stand of stunted Spartina alterniflora community" (Coleman 1976)

1976 – "Stunted Spartina alterniflora predominates. Several upland grasses and Iva frutescens are growing on the impoundment which has been rebuilt since 1948. A new ditch has been excavated since 1948. Iva frutescens is growing along the edge" (Coleman 1976). The near ditch is associated with the installation of two culverts installed at different times and the flow from these structures have scoured the ditch/creek on the downstream side of the dike.

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