It was established by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) on 6 April 2001 to preserve local species.

[1] The marshlands is owned jointly by the K'omoxs First Nation, the towns' municipality, and the Comox Valley Regional District,[2] and lays within both the traditional territories of the K'omoks people and the Pacific Temperate Rain Forest.

The Marsh is home to many species of fish, birds, flora and fauna; some endemic, some native to the area (both residential and migratory), and others invasive.

[8] Today the marsh land undergoes periodic (man-made) scarification by bulldozer(s) in order to aid in creating more open water for birds and other lifeforms.

This coupled, with the vast interconnected root systems that individual plants share, make it particularly difficult to exterminate and put server pressures on native species.

[16] In 1994 a public hearing was held in response to development proposals, where locals opposed the idea and the area as a whole as designated as Crown Forest.

[17] Eventually, in 2001 the Lazo March- North East Comox Wildlife Management Area was established.The view on this now-protected land wasn't always that of appreciation.