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Salton Sea NWR


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  03/23/2009
North East
California
USA
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Location: Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge; located in California's Imperial Valley, 40 miles north of the Mexican border at the southern end of the Salton Sea.
 
Author(s): Catherine M. Lockwood
Association: Scientist
       Latitude: 33.09020
Longitude: -115.69810
         
Wetland Category: Salt Marsh
Description: Hypersaline (over 48,000 ppt) emergent herbaceous wetland seasonally flooded as lake level rises during winter and spring local rainfall and mountain snow melt. Wetland type is classified as Salt Marsh and is in the Palustrine classification because the inland salinity is not ocean derived.
 
Additional Site Dates:

03/23/2009
 
05/10/2014