Goat Marsh RNA
| Name: |
Goat Marsh |
| Ownership: |
FS |
| Type: |
RNA |
| State: |
Washington |
| Ecoregion: |
West Cascades |
| Forest: |
Gifford Pinchot NF |
| District |
Mount St. Helens RD |
| Acres: |
1308 |
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Goat Marsh Research Natural Area (RNA) was established to represent a mosaic of mountain marshlands, swamps, and ponds and a xeric lodge pole pine forest characteristic of mudflow and glacial outwash around Cascadian volcanoes. The center of the RNA contains a wetland while the eastern portion contain marshes dominated by grasses and sedges. Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) dominates pyroclastic flow forests in the harshest areas, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) dominate areas with richer soils, and western balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa) dominates the moistest areas. Roundleaf sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) and angelica (Angelica spp.) are two carnivorous species present.
| Records and Plans: |
- Establishment Record
- Washington Natural Areas Plan 2007
- Washington Natural Areas Plan 2009 update
- Washington Natural Areas Plan 2011 update
- Goat Marsh Research Natural Area; Franklin, Jerry F.; Wiberg, Curt 1979
- Checklist of the vascular plants of Goat Marsh Research Natural Area; Schuller, S. Reid; Cornelius, Lynn C. 1982
- Long-term research on forest dynamics in the Pacific Northwest: a network of permanent forest plots; Acker, S. A.; McKee, W. A.; Harmon, M. E.; Franklin, J. F. 1998
- Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington; Franklin, J. F.; Dyrness, C. T. 1988
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| Research Publications Associated with this RNA: |
- Influence of canopy structure on the understory environment in tall, old-growth, conifer forests; Van Pelt, Robert; Franklin, Jerry F. 2000
- Biomass and primary production in forests of three major vegetation zones of the Northwest United States; Fujimori, T.; Kawanbe, S.; Saito, H.; Grier, C. C.; Shidei, T. 1976
- Ecology of Noble fir; Franklin, J. F. 1983
- Recent lahars from Mount St. Helens, Washington; Mullineaux, D. R.; Crandell, D. R. 1962
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