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Wetland Classification and Mapping of the Kenai Lowland, Alaska
Map Unit Descriptions Ecosystem: Relict Glacial Lakebed
Map Unit: LB25; LB2-5
Extent: LB25: 3 wetland polygons; 2.6 ha; 0.00% of wetland area; 0.02% of wetland polygons. LB2-5: 4 wetland polygons; 46.0 ha; 0.03% of wetland area; 0.02% of wetland polygons. |
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 A disturbed LB52 wetland at the Homer Airport (polygon 50498). |
Wetland Indicators Type: Peat Average depth to water table: 112 cm at the single site measured Organic layer thickness: 77 cm at the single site measured Average depth to redoximorphic features: n/a Common Soils: DOROSHIN, STARICHKOF SALAMATOF, NIKOLAI Common Plant communities: LB2 component: LB3 component: Sphagnum moss - Manyflower sedge LB4 component: Sweetgale - Shrubby cinquefoil LB5 component: |
| Accuracy assessment: None of the polygons interpreted as LB2-5 or LB52 on aerial photographs were field checked. | |
The rare LB25 complex occurs near the Homer Airport where a shallow water table, sedge-dominated LB2 component occurs with a bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis) dominated component (LB5). They are too small and uncommon to be seen on the range map, above.
When sphagnum moss communities (LB3) and shrub dominated communities (LB4) are also present at a scale too fine to delineate at 1:25,000 the complex is named LB2-5. Bluejoint often indicates disturbance.
None of the LB2-5 units have been visited, but one, along Kalifonsy Beach Road near Kasilof, is apparently disturbed and another, along upper Clam Creek, appears undisturbed (on the 1996 aerial photography). It apparently has a large area of bluejoint at one end of a more or less segregated wetland, along with wetter sedge components fringed by both sphagnum and shrubby components.
