Perdido River Swamp

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The Perdido River Corridor is 120,000 acres of Alabama’s largest and most ecologically significant blackwater watershed. The riparian system is comprised of the headwaters, bogs, forested and marsh wetlands and adjacent upland communities of long-leaf pine along 84 miles of the Perdido River. The corridor begins at the seepage and saturated soils in the Rabun area including acres of pitcher plant bogs owned and protected by The Nature Conservancy, ADCNR, State Lands Division with CIAP funds and the Forever Wild Program The water of the Perdido river flows into one of the Gulf coast’s least developed back areas, the Perdido Bay and its estuaries and marshes. This corridor is characterized by sandy soils and a system of limited creeks and tributaries.