Cape Enrage Preserve

The property is located on Cape Enrage in Albert County and on the Bay of Fundy and includes woodland, marshland, and a coastal area on the Bay. The land was a donation in 1996 from Bill and Sharon Ayer of Fredericton.

The marsh is a particularly good example of a large, Class 1 Upper Bay of Fundy salt marsh. The regionally-rare Adders's tongue fern, Ophioglossum pussillum, may be found there as it has been reported in the region. The donated land also includes a sample of the land adjacent to the steep parallel rock ridges with intervening valleys and embayments. The rock ridges consist of sediments dipping steeply at 40-80 degrees and decreasing in age in a southerly direction. The upper portion of the formations are sandier and more resistant to erosion. Red shales and sandstone form the more resistant Shepody formation at Inner Head. The red shales and minor red sandstones and conglomerates of the Enrage formation are readily weathered and eroded and form the linear tidal lowlands beneath Barn Marsh Creek.