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The Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River is a federally designated area of the Delaware River protected under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The designation also includes sections of Paunnacussing Creek, Tohickon Creek, Tinicum Creek, Rapp Creek, and Beaver Creek. In total, the protection ...
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area came about as a result of the failure of a controversial plan to build a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island, just north of the Delaware Water Gap to control water levels for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The dam would have created a 37-mile (60 km) lake in the center of ...
Kobuk Wild River [3] Kobuk River: AK: NPS: Dec 2, 1980 110 mi (180 km) 0 0 110 mi (180 km) North Fork of the Koyukuk Wild River [3] North Fork Koyukuk River: AK: NPS: Dec 2, 1980 102 mi (164 km) 0 0 102 mi (164 km) Lamprey Wild and Scenic River [3] Lamprey River: NH: NPS: Nov 12, 1996 0 0 23.5 mi (37.8 km) 23.5 mi (37.8 km) Little Beaver Creek
His revised proposal would designate the Delaware River and some of the land on both sides of the river, as the National Park, while the remainder of the nearly 70,000 acres of the park would be ...
The change, proposed by Delaware River National Park and Lenape Preserve Alliance, could change the purpose and culture of the current recreation area away from a place where hunting, fishing and ...
The Partnership was established in 1989 as an offshoot of the Bucks County Conservancy (now the Heritage Conservancy), a coalition of organizations attempting to protect open space and resources along the Delaware River. In 1989, it led the coalition study of the river which earned the Lower Delaware designation as a Federal Wild and Scenic ...
This photo shows an adult bald eagle on a new nest on a Delaware River island within the boundaries of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Posted by photographer James Kaval, the ...
The Delaware River looking north above Walpack Bend near Walpack, New Jersey, where the river leaves the historic Minisink region, a buried valley eroded from the Marcellus Formation The watershed of the Delaware River drains an area of 14,119 square miles (36,570 km 2 ) and encompasses 42 counties and 838 municipalities in five U.S. states ...