The yellow-headed blackbird prefers nesting in the emergent marsh areas.
Vegetation is essential to the success of the wetland.
Plants increase evapotranspiration by as much as 20 percent in the summer and improve water quality. Wetland vegetation includes rush meadow, threesquare bulrush, tule cattail, and willow thickets. Upland vegetation consists primarily of sagebrush, rabbitbrush, greasewood, and salt grass, which tolerate the alkaline soils. Floodplain vegetation includes rabbitbrush and salt grass, plants which can exist in saline, silty loam, and clay soils. Project implementation has allowed existing plant species to flourish.