Many of the WPAs in Valley City WMD have been planted to a mix of wheatgrass, alfalfa, and sweetclover to enhance waterfowl nesting cover. Some WPAs still have native tallgrass prairie plant communities, including big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, purple coneflower, and prairie coneflower plants. Still other WPAs have been re-seeded to a native grass mixture.

Aside from providing important nesting areas for several species of ducks, WPAs also host a wide variety of other bird species, including savannah and clay-colored sparrows, bobolinks, northern harriers, upland sandpipers, pied-billed grebes, and American avocets, just to name a few. Amphibians, such as leopard frogs and tiger salamanders, as well as mammals like red fox, white-tailed deer, and the occasional moose, also use these areas.