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The Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary is located along the tidal Patuxent River in southern Maryland, United States. It was established in 1985 and is operated by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. It includes more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km 2) of tidal freshwater wetlands, forests, meadows and fields.
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Jug Bay and Otter Point Creek were designated in 1990. The purpose of the 6,249 acres (25.29 km 2 ) Maryland Reserve, managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, is to manage protected estuarine areas as natural field laboratories and to develop and implement a coordinated program of research, monitoring, education and volunteer ...
Many of those ecosystems are protected by some form of parkland, on the state and local levels. The most notable of which include Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Merkle Wetlands Sanctuary in the Edgar A. Merkle Wildlife Refuge, [2] [3] and Patuxent River Park, along with many more. Farther north, there is the 20 square mile Patuxent Research Refuge ...
In addition to a wealth of wetlands and forests, Blackwater Refuge is also host to over 250 bird species, 35 species of reptiles and amphibians, 165 species of threatened and endangered plants, and numerous mammals that can be spotted throughout the year in Blackwater's marshes, forests, meadows, and fields. During winter migration, Blackwater ...
Patuxent Research Refuge supports a wide diversity of wildlife in forest, meadow, and wetland habitats. The land is managed to maintain biological diversity and to protect and benefit native and migratory bird species. During the fall and spring migrations, many waterfowl species stop to rest and feed. Over 270 species of birds occur on the refuge.
Quite the process! Friends wouldn’t be Friends without that iconic opening scene in front of the fountain. However, it wasn’t originally there at all. “We tried a few different things with ...
Canoeing on Dundee Creek at Marshy Point. Groundbreaking began on the center on October 20, 1998, enabled by a $2.7 million grant. [4] In 2000, the state of Maryland spent $2 million to purchase the trails behind the center.