All cells are water-level controlled.
Along drier sites on the sandy old beach ridges, which run diagonally across the marsh, prairie vegetation may be found. Cattails is the dominant emergent plant, while in open water areas one can find pickerelweed, white waterlily and American lotus as well as submergent plants such as muskgrass, wild celery, Canada waterweed and various types of pondweed. Located at the transition between Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. Raccoons, skunks and muskrats also inhabit this NWA, with muskrats being the most common mammal. This NWA is also home to a variety of snakes, turtles and frogs, some of which are rare or threatened.