Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge has the largest hardstem bulrush marsh in North America.
One of the few Pomo survivors of the Bloody Island Massacre (also called the Clear Lake Massacre) in Northern California, a 6-year-old girl named Ni'ka, or Lucy Moore, evaded the United States Cavalry by hiding underwater and breathing through a tule reed, and was thereby able to survive.
The plant Schoenoplectus acutus, which is endangered in Pennsylvania, was found in the Richfield Marsh in 1987.
Schoenoplectus pungens | Schoenoplectus acutus | Schoenoplectus |