Lies between active railgrade and upland forest edge. Highly disturbed marsh within Shepardstown limits.;Calcareous marsh in Town Run floodplain. This section on edge of the marsh away from railgrade has fewer invasives than marsh as a whole. It is a smaller section of marsh west of railgrade, not in direct contact with Town Run (perhaps insulated from stormwater flow from town).
Representativeness
Plot was placed to capture area relatively free of purple loosestrife and dominated by bulrush and rice cutgrass.