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Springer Lake Preserve:
40 Acres
located
in southern Thurston County.
Donated in 1998.
The
property consists of two non-adjacent parcels surrounded
by a large-lot residential development. Springer Lake, a
five-acre freshwater pond containing a 1/4 acre sphagnum
bog community, is located in the center of a 25 acre
parcel. There is an additional two-acre depressional
wetland near the lake and other freshwater wetlands that
extend off of the parcel to the southeast. Amphibians
consist of salamanders, newts and frogs. A second, 15
acre parcel, is hydrologically connected to Springer
Lake and consists primarily of impacted wetland as a
result of former grazing.
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