areas--eating seeds that were present before flooding and 
invertebrates that developed before or after the submergence, 
Locally, upland gamebirds feed in this type while it is 
comparatively dry. 


2, Fresh Meadows. 
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Soil without standing water but 
waterlogged within at least a 
few inches of its surface 
during the growing season, 
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Located principally in glaci- 
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States, in the Nebraska sand- sonatas where this Tepe ia aieicotariy cous) 
hills, and in Florida, where 
they may fill shallow lake 
basins, potholes, limestone sinks, sloughs, or farmland sags, 
or may border shallow marshes on the landward side of such 
depressions, 
Vegetation of grasses, sedges, rushes, and various broad-leaved 
plants, In the North, representatives include carex, rushes, 
redtop, reedgrasses, mannagrasses, prairie cordgrass, and mints; 
in Florida, paspalums, dotted smartweed, and beakrushes. 
Used some in the North by nesting waterfowl, by wintering pheasants, 
prairie chickens, and occasional other birds, and by feeding 
moose and deer, and in Florida by feeding ducks and occasional 
other birds, 
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Soil normally waterlogged during ‘ky tj 
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inches of water, 

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country in the northern inland Ze 
States, in the Nebraska sand- ed nt 
hile.’ and sn Florida’ ‘where Inland shallow fresh marshes; Type 3. 
they may nearly fill shallow 
lake basins, potholes, limestone sinks, or sloughs, may border 
deep marshes on the landward side of such depressions, or may 
adjoin irrigation systems, 

