• Cluxewe River
• Quatse River
• Salmon River
• Zeballos River

• Birds
• Fish & Marine
• Mammals

• Forest
• Shrubland
• Grassland
• Marshland

The really constant tree species you will find in estuarine forests on northern Vancouver Island will be Sitka spruce although there will certainly also be significant amounts of western hemlock, red cedar and red alder. River bars and active riparian areas may have substantial occurrences of black cottonwood and red alder although this will gradually give way to coniferous forest with age.

Old coniferous forests in estuaries will often not have too much understory although you will usually find some salal, red huckleberry, sword fern, false lily of the valley, and foamflower with salmonberry, skunk cabbage and, possibly, slough sedge in depressional areas. Deciduous forests, on the other hand, will often have a very dense shrubby understory, again likely dominated by salmonberry but with a number of other species also present including, in particular, elderberry and red-osier dogwood in the shrub layer and various ferns in the herb layer.