| Notes | Netarts Spit Natural Heritage Conservation Area is a registered natural heritage resource site. It was registered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept. in April, 1989. Significant features include being sub-tidal, with a high-energy, sandy bottom, having an intertidal, low-exposure sandy beach, having low elevation/high salinity intertidal marsh on sand (dominants including Lyngby sedge, saltgrass, glasswort, three-square bulrush, seacoast bulrush, and arrow grass), and having significant tsunami deposits. Animal species of significant value include Branta canadensis leucopareia, the Aleutian Canada goose, while plant species include Cordylanthus maritimus ssp palustris - Salt-marsh bird's-beak. |
