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South Jersey: Operated by the New Jersey Audubon Society, bird watching, open Jan-May Cape May Bird Observatory - Northwood Center: Cape May Point: Cape May: South Jersey: Operated by the New Jersey Audubon Society, bird watching Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary: Short Hills: Essex: Gateway Region: 16.5 acres, trails, live animals ...
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Great Falls of Paterson-Garret Mountain: January 1967; expanded April 1967: Paterson: Passaic: federal The Great Falls of the Passaic River and a later expansion including Garret Mountain help demonstrate how jointed basaltic lava flow shaped the geology of the area during the Early Mesozoic era through both extrusion and intrusion
The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. [1]
New Jersey's county names derive from several sources, though most of its counties are named after place names in England and prominent leaders in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Bergen County is the most populous county—as of the 2010 Census—with 905,116 people, while Salem County is the least populous with 66,083 people.
Pages in category "Nature reserves in New Jersey" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... Schiff Nature Preserve; Shooters Island;
South Mountain Reservation, covering between 2,047 [1] and 2,112 [2] acres (between 8.28 and 8.54 km 2), depending on the source, is a nature reserve on the Rahway River that is part of the Essex County Park System in northeastern New Jersey. It is located in central Essex County, New Jersey within portions of Maplewood, Millburn, and West Orange.
Ramapo Mountain State Forest is a 4,200-acre (17 km 2) state forest in Bergen and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. The park offers hiking, hunting, canoeing, fishing (including ice fishing), cross-country skiing, horseback riding and mountain biking.
Watchung Reservation is the largest nature reserve in Union County, New Jersey, United States. [1] The Watchung area is located on a ridge within northern-central New Jersey, as it consists mainly of the upper valley of Blue Brook, between the ridges of the First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountains.